---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 460.132"
title: "42"
number: "460.132"
heading: "Quality improvement plan."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/460.132"
---

# §460.132. Quality improvement plan.

- (a) **Basic rule.** A PACE organization must have a written quality improvement plan that is collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature.
- (b) **Annual review.** The PACE governing body must review the plan annually and revise it, if necessary.
- (c) **Minimum plan requirements.** At a minimum, the plan must specify how the PACE organization proposes to meet the following requirements:
  - (1) **Identify areas to improve or maintain the delivery of services and patient care.**
  - (2) **Develop and implement plans of action to improve or maintain quality of care.**
  - (3) Document and disseminate to PACE staff and contractors the results from the quality improvement activities.

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, as amended at 84 FR 25676, June 3, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395, 1395eee(f), and 1396u-4(f).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, as amended at 84 FR 25676, June 3, 2019]