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Long Term Care Facilities

Guidance for Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) and Conditions of Participations (CoPs) for Long Term Care Facilities.

Final

Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: April 10, 2013

Publication date: 

February. 2, 1989

Effective date:     

August 1, 1989

CFR section numbers:      

42 CFR 483

CFR section descriptions: Requirements for Long Term Care Facilities

Brief description of document(s)

The provisions of this part contain the requirements that an institution must meet in order to qualify to participate as a SNF in the Medicare program, and as a nursing facility in the Medicaid program. They serve as the basis for survey activities for the purpose of determining whether a facility meets the requirements for participation in Medicare and Medicaid.


 

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