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126–730. [Deleted] HISTORY: Former Regulation, titled Persons Eligible to Receive Social Services, deleted by SCSR42–5 Doc. No. 4746, eff May 25, 2018. 126–740. [Deleted] HISTORY: Former Regulation, titled Application Procedures, deleted by SCSR42–5 Doc. No. 4746, eff May 25, 2018. 126–750. [Deleted] HISTORY: Former Regulation, titled Client Right to Appeal, deleted by SCSR42–5 Doc. No. 4746, eff May 25, 2018. 126–799. [Deleted] HISTORY: Former Regulation, titled Prior Regulations, deleted by SCSR42–5 Doc. No. 4746, eff May 25, 2018. ARTICLE 8 INTERMEDIATE SANCTIONS FOR MEDICAID CERTIFIED NURSING FACILITIES (Statutory Authority: 1976 Code Sections 44-6-90, 44-6-540) 126–800. Definitions. A. Administrator of the State Medicaid Agency means the Executive Director of South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. B. Annual Standard Survey means an annual standard survey conducted on each nursing facility, without prior notice to the facility. The survey may occur as early as nine months, but shall not be later than fifteen months after the date of the nursing facility’s previous standard survey. The statewide average interval between standard surveys shall not exceed twelve months. C. Certification means the State Survey Agency’s determination that a nursing facility meets the requirements for participation in the Medicaid program. D. Credible allegation means a statement or documentation which must be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) when a nursing facility has had serious deficiencies resulting in imminent action to terminate the provider’s certification. The statement must indicate how deficiencies will be corrected and problems resolved and be realistic in terms of the possibility of correction by specified deadlines. E. Credible Certified Notice of Correction means a certification letter from the Nursing Facility to the State Survey Agency and the Medicaid Agency, stipulating that deficiencies noted in the most recent survey and due to be corrected by the last date in an accepted credible allegation or in an accepted plan of correction, have been corrected as of the date of the certification letter. Credibility shall be validated upon the next Survey Agency revisit, and penalties shall cease or escalate from the date of the certified notice in accordance with procedures in Section 126–840. The statement, ‘‘I certify that’’ must precede the statement of correction. F. Deficiency means non-compliance with requirements of participation for nursing facilities as mandated by Federal Regulations. G. Immediately Jeopardizes the Health or Safety of Residents means that conditions exist which pose a high probability that serious harm or injury to patients could occur at any time, or already has occurred and may well occur again if patients are not protected effectively from the harm (An immediate and serious threat need not result in actual harm to the resident. The threat of probable harm is perceived as being as serious or significant). The only acceptable corrective action is the immediate elimination of the conditions which immediately jeopardize the resident’s health and safety. H. Medicaid is the common name for Title XIX of the Social Security Act.