Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Access New Medicare Webinars On Cross-Setting QMs, Pressure Ulcers
Published on Fri Jan 15, 2021
New on-demand training from Medicare is now available on cross-setting quality measures and specifically on Section M: Skin Conditions — Assessment and Coding of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries. Access the new “From Data Elements to Quality Measures — Cross-Setting QRP” session at https://pac. training/courses/Data_Elements_to_QMs. The 90-minute Section M course is at https://pac.training/courses/Section_M. The skin conditions course “is divided into the following six sections and includes interactive exercises to test your knowledge related to the assessment and coding of pressure ulcers/injuries,” CMS says.
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