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Renegade Accreditation Surveyors ◗ Re: "11 Dings That Might Surprise You" (August, page 32). Speaking as a retired Medicare surveyor (now consultant), accreditation surveyors must adhere to the standards to which they are surveying, not to their own interpretation of these standards. If there is no regulatory (not the Interpretive Guidelines) statement that refers to the issue, even indirectly, then the surveyors are imposing their own "underground" regulation, which cannot be enforced. A facility can only be cited under the CMS reg- ulations for non-compliance with a regulation and/or nationally accepted standards of care and services. Under a Medicare survey, you can (diplo- matically) challenge a potential citation by asking the surveyors to identify where, in the regulations or standards, the issue under review is in viola- tion. Bruce Ettinger, MD, MPH Santa Monica, Calif. bbemdmph@aol.com 1 3 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E LETTERS & E-Mails

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