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January 2012 - CMS Update, Revised SOM

We hope you had a pleasant and relaxing holiday season and return to work with a renewed enthusiasm to meet the challenges ahead.

January 2012 - CMS Update, Revised SOM

We hope you had a pleasant and relaxing holiday season and return to work with a renewed enthusiasm to meet the challenges ahead. It has been somewhat of a quiet month in the accreditation and regulatory world. CMS had been very busy last fall with a revised state operations manual, proposed revisions to the COPS and new tracer tools. On December 22 CMS posted another update to the SOM with new content about telemedicine, which we will describe below. This late December revision to the early December edition eliminates the red highlighting for all the changes that were seen in the early December edition. The bad news is we suggest that you download both versions and read all the changes highlighted in red in the first update, then download the second update and just read the changes they made to telemedicine and administration of drugs. including their

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