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Title
Clarification on Release of 60-Day Quality Improvement Organization Reports by CMS
Memo #
QSO-24-09-EMTALA
Posting Date
2024-03-27
Fiscal Year
2024
Title
Memorandum Summary
• CMS is clarifying procedures related to the release of the Quality Improvement Organization’s (QIO) 60-day report, requested for CMS’s referral of an EMTALA case to the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and for OIG’s investigation of the case.
• Specifically, the 60-day report may not be released to the affected physician and/or hospital until after the OIG investigation is completed and the OIG closes the case.
• CMS is clarifying procedures related to the release of the Quality Improvement Organization’s (QIO) 60-day report, requested for CMS’s referral of an EMTALA case to the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and for OIG’s investigation of the case.
• Specifically, the 60-day report may not be released to the affected physician and/or hospital until after the OIG investigation is completed and the OIG closes the case.