{"id":789,"date":"2012-02-01T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=789"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:18:50","slug":"achc-releases-updated-cms-accreditation-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/achc-releases-updated-cms-accreditation-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"ACHC Releases Updated CMS Accreditation Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Raleigh NC &#8212; <\/span>The\u00a0Accreditation\u00a0Council for Healthcare (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.achc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACHC<\/a>) has released updated standards for CMS accreditation for durable medical equipment (DME) providers, medical supply providers and other organizations subject to Medicare accreditation. ACHC updates its standards periodically, and accredited organizations must then update their management systems to comply with the revised standards.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official ACHC alert:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>The  annual update to the ACHC Standards for Accreditation is now available.       ACHC aims to provide organizations with the most up to date and  comprehensive set of standards.       Each year ACHC compiles feedback from accredited organizations,  surveyors and industry consultants in regard to the ACHC Standards for  Accreditation.       With this information ACHC has modified some wording, consolidated  standards and clarified interpretations.       The main intent of most standards has not changed.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new standards may be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/store.achc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oxebridge no longer performs CMS Accreditation consulting or preparation. For the full press release on that decision, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=775\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh NC &#8212; The\u00a0Accreditation\u00a0Council for Healthcare (ACHC) has released updated standards for CMS accreditation for durable medical equipment (DME) providers, medical supply providers and other organizations subject to Medicare accreditation. ACHC updates its standards periodically, and accredited organizations must then update their management systems to comply with the revised standards. According to the official ACHC [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,37,38],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-achc","tag-cms-accreditation","tag-dmepos","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}