DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS
(use with CMS-671 Long Term Care Facility Application for Medicare and Medicaid)
This form is to be completed by the Facility. For the purpose of this form “the facility” equals certified beds (i.e.,
Medicare and/or Medicaid certified beds).
Standard Survey: LEAVE BLANK – Survey team will complete.
Extended Survey: LEAVE BLANK – Survey team will complete.
INSTRUCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS
Name of Facility: Use the official name of the facility
for business and mailing purposes. This includes
components or units of a larger institution.
Provider Number: Leave blank on initial certifications.
On all recertifications, insert the facility’s assigned six-
digit provider code.
Street Address: Street name and number refers to
physical location, not mailing address, if two addresses
differ.
City: Rural addresses should include the city of the
nearest post office.
County: County refers to parish name in Louisiana and
township name where appropriate in the New England
States.
State: For U.S. possessions and trust territories, name is
included in lieu of the State.
Zip Code: Zip Code refers to the “Zip-plus-four” code, if
available, otherwise the standard Zip Code.
Telephone Number: Include the area code.
State/County Code: LEAVE BLANK. State Survey Office
will complete.
State/Region Code: LEAVE BLANK. State Survey Office
will complete.
Block F9: Enter either 01 (SNF), 02 (NF), or 03 (SNF/NF).
Block F10: If the facility is under administrative control
of a hospital, check “yes,” otherwise check “no.”
Block F11: The hospital provider number is the
hospital’s assigned six-digit Medicare provider number.
Block F12: Identify the type of organization that
controls and operates the facility. Enter the code as
identified for that organization (e.g., for a for profit
facility owned by an individual, enter 01 in the F12
block; a facility owned by a city government would be
entered as 09 in the F12 block).
Definitions to determine ownership are:
For-Profit: If operated under commercial ownership,
indicate whether owned by individual, partnership,
corporation, or limited liability corporation (LLC).
Non-Profit: If operated under voluntary or other
nonprofit auspices, indicate whether church related,
nonprofit corporation or other nonprofit.
Government: If operated by a governmental entity,
indicate whether State, City, Hospital District, County,
City/County, or Federal Government.
Block F13: Check “yes” if the facility is owned or leased
by a multi-facility organization, otherwise check “no.”
A Multi-Facility Organization is an organization
that owns two or more long term care facilities. The
owner may be an individual or a corporation. Leasing
of facilities by corporate chains is included in this
definition.
Block F14: If applicable, enter the name of the multi-
facility organization. Use the name of the corporate
ownership of the multi-facility organization (e.g., if
the name of the facility is Soft Breezes Home and the
name of the multi-facility organization that owns Soft
Breezes is XYZ Enterprises, enter XYZ Enterprises).
Block F15 – F23: Enter the number of beds in the
facility’s Dedicated Special Care Units. These are
units with a specific number of beds, identified and
dedicated by the facility for residents with specific
needs/diagnoses. They need not be certified or
recognized by regulatory authorities. For example,
a SNF admits a large number of residents with head
injuries. They have set aside 8 beds on the north wing,
staffed with specifically trained personnel. Show “8”
in F19.
Block F24: Check “yes” if the facility currently has an
organized residents’ group, i.e., a group(s) that meets
regularly to discuss and offer suggestions about facility
policies and procedures affecting residents’ care,
treatment, and quality of life; to sup- port each other;
to plan resident and family activities; to participate
in educational activities or for any other purposes;
otherwise check “no.”
Form CMS-671 INSTRUCTIONS (06/2018)
OMB Exempt