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CMS Pub. 100-08, ch. 4, § 4.12.10
UCM Outages
If there are system outages, scheduled or unscheduled, resulting in UCM being
unavailable for two or less business days, the expectation is that the contractors shall
complete UCM entries within five business days of UCM being restored.
If there are system outages, scheduled or unscheduled, resulting in UCM being
unavailable for greater than two business days, the expectation is that the contractors
shall complete UCM entries within ten business days of UCM being restored.
History
(Rev. 943; Issued: 02-21-20; Effective: 03-24-20; Implementation: 03-24- 20)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
1f7c92cc3b96174c69f2d6d8a3bd4b3e94176263d87c4dfb89b839a112c0afc2
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