{"id":"SEC-01-006","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"01","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"CMS, Quality, Safety \u0026 Oversight Group","authority":"42 C.F.R. 482.42 (infection control CoP); survey guidance","instrument":"QSO-20-13-Hospitals-CAHs (REVISED)","title":"Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention Concerning Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): FAQs and Considerations for Patient Triage, Placement, Limits to Visitation and Availability of 1135 waivers","dateIssued":"2020-03-04","effective":"2020-03-04","end":"Expiration date stated May 1, 2023","startDate":"2020-03-04","endDate":"2023-05-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, CAHs; State survey agencies"],"clause":"Reschedule non-urgent outpatient visits as necessary. Reschedule elective surgeries, procedures, and other visits as necessary. Shift elective urgent inpatient diagnostic and surgical procedures to outpatient settings... Limit visitors to COVID-19 positive patients and persons under investigation (PUI).","enforcement":"Survey guidance under the infection-control CoP; deficiencies cited under 42 C.F.R. 488","functions":["VS visitor limits","SX rescheduling","OC","ED triage","IC screening"],"notes":"Guidance, not an order; pleaded as the federal standard the State orders adopted and as the survey standard enforced under the infection-control CoP.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-13-hospitals-cahs-revised.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":390133,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-01","url":"/library/SEC-01-006","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-01-006","citation":"CMS, Quality, Safety \u0026 Oversight Group, QSO-20-13-Hospitals-CAHs (REVISED) (Mar. 4, 2020) (Ex. SEC-01-006)","stateName":"","related":["SEC-01-GM-042","SEC-01-GM-043","SEC-01-GM-072","SEC-04-GM-004"]}