CDC Report on Antibiotic Resistance CDC’s most recent Vital Signs report highlights the importance of rapid identification of new or rare resistance. This is the critical first step in CDC’s Containment Strategy to stop the spread of antibiotic resistance (AR). Once AR spreads, it is harder to control. Finding...

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Skilled Nursing Facility Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage (SNF ABN) This article informs you about Change Request (CR) 10567, which advises you that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised the Skilled Nursing Facility Notice of Non-coverage (SNF ABN), Form CMS-10055. With this revision, CMS is...

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Yesterday (2/28/18), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the survey domain methodology of the Five-Star rating system. In the previous methodology, CMS used a center’s most recent three survey cycles in calculating the survey rating. In the updated methodology, CMS will use the most recent two...

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