Employ or obtain outside professional resources to provide services in the nursing home when the facility does not employ a qualified professional to furnish a required service.
F840 in Indiana. Pick another state for the same tag.
No F840 citations were recorded in Indiana for 2025. That means none appear in the CMS file for that year — not that the requirement does not apply.
In the surveyor’s words
What Indiana surveyors wrote
F840 findings written in Indiana, one from each severity band recorded here, most serious first.
Severity is as the surveyor wrote it. Some findings had already been corrected before the survey.
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedJanuary 7, 2026
Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to obtain a written contract with an outside resource detailing the services provided and the timeliness of the services. A pain clinic was providing services to a resident without a contract or communication about those services to the facility. (Resident 3)Finding includes:On 1/5/26 at 10:35 A.M., Resident 3's clinical record was reviewed. Diagnoses included, but were not limited to, chronic pain syndrome and opioid dependence. The most current Quarterly Minimum Data Set (MDS) Assessment, dated 10/27/25, indicated that Resident 3 was cognitively intact, was independent in all Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), and received an opioid medication during the 7-day lookback period. …
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