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CMS Memo Regarding Surveillance Issued

Angie SzumlinskiCompliance

The new memo outlines a performance-based funding requirement tied to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act supplemental grants for State Survey Agencies, new guidance for the limited resumption of routine survey activities and enhanced penalties for noncompliance with infection control.

You can read the new memo here:

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-31-all.pdf