---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 488.307"
title: "42"
number: "488.307"
heading: "Unannounced surveys."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/488.307"
---

# §488.307. Unannounced surveys.

- (a) **Basic rule.** All standard surveys must be unannounced.
- (b) **Review of survey agency's scheduling and surveying procedures.**
  - (1) CMS reviews on an annual basis each State survey agency's scheduling and surveying procedures and practices to ensure that survey agencies avoid giving notice of a survey through the scheduling procedures and the conduct of the surveys.
  - (2) CMS takes corrective action in accordance with the nature and complexity of the problem when survey agencies are found to have notified a SNF or NF through their scheduling or procedural policies. Sanctions for inadequate survey performance are in accordance with [§ 488.320](/cfr/42/488.320.md).
- (c) **Civil money penalties.** An individual who notifies a SNF or NF, or causes a SNF or NF to be notified, of the time or date on which a standard survey is scheduled to be conducted is subject to a Federal civil money penalty not to exceed $2,000 as adjusted annually under [45 CFR part 102](/cfr/45/part102.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 56238, Nov. 10, 1994, as amended at 81 FR 61563, Sept. 6, 2016]

### Source

Source: 59 FR 56238, Nov. 10, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C 1302 and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 22859, June 17, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[59 FR 56238, Nov. 10, 1994, as amended at 81 FR 61563, Sept. 6, 2016]