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CMS Emergency Preparedness Testing Clarification

CMS continues to make clarifications to the Emergency Preparedness regulation.  A revision to QSO-20-41-ALL was released on June 21, 2021 and was directed to State Surveyors.  As previously established, outpatient providers of services, such as home health and home hospice, are required to test their program annually.  In 2019, CMS changed the testing requirement for…