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CMS eliminates 2nd survey for psychiatric hospitals, to merge B-tags into SOMA

CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals, eliminating the need for double survey visits.

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