- Title
- Approval of Deeming Authority of the Joint Commission for Psychiatric
- Memo #
- 11-26-AO
- Posting Date
- 05/06/2011
- Fiscal Year
- 2011
- Summary
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved the Joint Commission as a national accreditation program for psychiatric hospitals seeking to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs. This approval provides psychiatric hospitals with an accreditation option which previously did not exist.
