The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released memo QSO-25-19-ALL on June 17 announcing a policy change impacting all CMS-certified providers and suppliers that will now make survey findings available within 14 days of receipt by the provider, including immediately upon receipt by the provider.
Previously, survey findings recorded on form CMS-2567 were held for up to 90 days after completion of a survey to allow time for the provider to complete and submit a Plan of Correction. For many years, citations that were under dispute by the provider were withheld from public display even though the rest of the CMS-2567 was publicly available.
A January 2023 memo changed this policy for nursing homes to allow CMS to publicly display citations under dispute with notation of the dispute and the opportunity for the nursing home to request a corrected copy of the CMS-2567 if the dispute resulted in any changes to the citation.
It is unclear at this time if, under the new policy, an update will be made to the publicly displayed CMS-2567 to indicate that a provider has chosen to dispute a citation.
LeadingAge is seeking clarification on this issue.
