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2004 Newsletter
Medicare Billing: Avoid Payment Liability Problems With New ABN
MDS Alert
Medicare Billing:
Avoid Payment Liability Problems With New ABN
Published on Fri Feb 27, 2004
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MDS Alert
MDS Coding:
Improve Wound Coding To Heal Fiscal And Survey Sore Spots
Hint: Determine each wound's true etiology and capture those risk factors.
Talk about walking the coding [...]
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Know The MDS Definitions For Staging Wounds
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The best fall management programs balance resident [...]
Medicare Billing:
Avoid Payment Liability Problems With New ABN
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Don't Take A Fall For Miscoding Falls On The MDS
Here's how CMS defines a fall
Did you know that a resident doesn't have to [...]
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Track Fall-Related Injuries With This Tool
Providers can use the following format to track residents' falls and update the plan of [...]
Coding Quizer:
Wound Coding
Question: How would you code this resident's wounds on Section M of the MDS?
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Quality Reporting:
Counter These 3 Shortfalls To New Quality Measures
These strategies will help you tell the 'rest of the story' about your facility's quality [...]
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SIGECAPS Screening Tool For Depression
Nursing staff can use this tool to screen residents for depression or dysthymia. Sleep increase/decrease
Interest [...]
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14 Enhanced Quality Measures
Post-Acute Quality Measures
Percent of short-stay residents who had moderate to severe pain (Residents at the [...]
MDS & BILLING NEWS TO USE
Got comments you'd like to share publicly on a Medicare or Medicaid reg? You can [...]
Skilled Nursing Facility Advance Beneficiary Notice (SNF ABN)
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