Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 350-3-.06 - Monitoring
(1) The Department shall maintain procedures and adequate staff
on-site, on a regular, as-needed basis, to monitor the facility's operations,
advise the facility in its effort to come into or maintain compliance, to
report to the licensing agency, and to investigate complaints of violations
which are not easily verified on one visit.
(a) One or more monitor(s) shall be placed in the nursing
facility:
1. when it has been found on three (3) standard surveys that
the nursing facility has provided substandard quality of care;
2. when the facility has been under temporary
management;
3. to ensure that Class A & B violations have been and
continue to be corrected; or
4. when the Department has reason to question a nursing
facility's compliance.
(2) The Department shall bill the facility for the expenses of
monitoring at the end of the monitoring process. Within fifteen (15) days of
receipt of the bill, the facility shall pay the bill or request Administrative
Review to contest the costs for which it was billed. Such expenses shall be
recoverable through recoupment from future medical assistance payments in the
same fashion as a benefits overpayment.
(3) In the event a monitor is already in a facility pursuant to
the provisions of O.C.G.A. ยง
31-7-2.2(b), the Department may not place a
monitor in the facility.
Notes
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