Additional proposed PPS rule highlights

Effective Jul 14, 2014
Published Jul 10, 2014
Last Reviewed Jul 10, 2014
 When Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) or state hearing officers find the basis exists for imposing a civil money penalty, they won’t be able to eliminate the financial penalty entirely. When ALJs and hearing officers find noncompliance, they can’t “set a penalty of zero or reduce a penalty to zero” or “review the exercise of discretion by CMS or the state to impose a civil money penalty,” the proposed rule states. Starting in July, surveyors were able to issue civil monetary penalties and payment suspensions for agencies with deficiencies 
 
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