General Provisions

  1. Law
  2. CFR 42
  3. Public Health
  4. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Standards and Certification
  6. Survey, Certification, and Enforcement Procedures
  7. General Provisions

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Section
488.1

Definitions.

Section
488.2

Statutory basis.

Section
488.3

Conditions of participation, conditions for coverage, conditions for certification and long term care requirements.

Section
488.4

General rules for a CMS-approved accreditation program for providers and suppliers.

Section
488.5

Application and re-application procedures for national accrediting organizations.

Section
488.6

Providers or suppliers that participate in the Medicaid program under a CMS-approved accreditation program.

Section
488.7

Release and use of accreditation surveys.

Section
488.8

Ongoing review of accrediting organizations.

Section
488.9

Validation surveys.

Section
488.10

State survey agency review: Statutory provisions.

Section
488.11

State survey agency functions.

Section
488.12

Effect of survey agency certification.

Section
488.13

Loss of accreditation.

Section
488.14

Effect of QIO review.

Section
488.18

Documentation of findings.

Section
488.20

Periodic review of compliance and approval.

Section
488.24

Certification of noncompliance.

Section
488.26

Determining compliance.

Section
488.28

Providers or suppliers, other than SNFs, NFs, HHAs, and Hospice programs with deficiencies.

Section
488.30

Revisit user fee for revisit surveys.