Draft Interpretive Guidance for the Survey Process of the New ESRD Conditions for Coverage

We invite staff of State agencies, members of the renal community, and our Federal colleagues to provide additional input to CMS' revision of the surveyor Interpretive Guidance by way of comment to the attached draft Interpretive Guidance for the new ESRD regulation. The attached document includes the regulatory language that was published as a Final Rule for the ESRD Program in the Federal Register on April 15, 2008, as well as regulatory text that was incorporated by reference in that Final Rule.