tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 37

Long-Term Care: Providers Must Document Flu Shot Offer

If nursing home residents aren't offered vaccine, facility may violate new immunization rules. Nursing homes nationwide could be hit hard this flu season, but new regulations, not pathogens, may deliver the biggest blow. Late in August, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services promised to push the development of a final rule for new immunization standards for skilled nursing facilities.The agency published a proposed rule in the Aug. 15 Federal Register, offering an abbreviated 15-day comment period. The proposed rule requires all Medicare or Medicaid-certified nursing facilities, as a condition of participation, to offer all residents (or their...

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