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Continuing to stress the importance of discharge planning and preventing unnecessary readmissions, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a revised set of Discharge Planning Interpretive Guidelines that surveyors will use to assess a hospital's compliance with Medicare's Conditions of Participation. The guidelines do not apply to critical access hospitals, which must follow a different set of Conditions of Participation.

CMS updates discharge planning guidelines