Medicare cost reports all have signature pages, which must be signed as part of the submission process.  A cost report without a signed signature page does not constitute a valid cost report submission.

In the past, most signature pages had a line which read “Signature of Officer or Administrator of Provider”.  That is no longer the case.

Now the signature line reads “Signature of Chief Financial Officer or Administrator of Provider”.  This means that the CFO or administrator is eligible to sign the cost report signature page.

Per recent instructions, it seems that “administrator” in this case means anyone who is certified by the facility to sign the cost report and is acting as the administrator of the report.

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