tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 32

NURSING HOMES: Surveyors' Notes Can Help You Win An Appeal

This strategy can ante up the 'rest of the story.'The CMS 2567 can say one thing, but if surveyors' notes offer a different view, your facility may have a foot in the door for winning an appeal.When preparing for an appeal, ask for surveyors' actual notes and compare them to the statement of deficiencies (CMS 2567), suggests attorney Barbara Miltenberger with Husch & Eppenberger in Jefferson City, MO. "Oftentimes, the notes show that surveyors have taken statements attributed to staff, residents, families and physicians out of context in the statement of deficiencies," Miltenberger says. And the...

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