What is a CMS regulation?
Besides, what are CMS standards?
The CMS manages the Administrative Simplification Standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). CMS oversees quality in clinical laboratories and long-term care facilities, as well as providing oversight of the health insurance exchanges.
Correspondingly, what is the purpose of CMS?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The CMS seeks to strengthen and modernize the Nation's health care system, to provide access to high quality care and improved health at lower costs.
The Interpretive Guidelines serve to interpret and clarify the Conditions (or Requirements for SNFs and NFs). The Interpretive Guidelines merely define or explain the relevant statute and regulations and do not impose any requirements that are not otherwise set forth in statute or regulation.