• 1 Medicare Payment: The Resident Is RUGing Into What?!

• 2 Medicare Payment: Head Off A Fiscal Fall--Know What's Behind A Resident's RUG Placement

• 3 Payment Trends: Time For Another Time Study--CMS Pushes To Get The RUG System Up To Speed

• 4 Consolidated Billing: 5 Ways To Cut Your Losses Under Consolidated Billing

• 5 RAI Compliance: Don't Confuse Consolidated Billing With MDS Coding Rules

• 6 MDS Coding: Cover These Bases In Coding A Resident On Palliative Care

• 7 Coding Quizzer: Determine Discharge Potential For The Dying Patient

• 8 Quality Reporting: Coding End-Stage Disease Excludes Residents From These Quality Measures

• 9 Section W: Worried About Lack Of Coding Options To Explain Immunizations Offered But Not Yet Given?

• 10 Clip 'N' Save: Code Sections A9, A10, Correctly

• 11 Clip 'N' Save: See How The RUGs Stack Up Under CMI Maximization

• 12 Resident Assessment: Check Out This Fax Form For Reporting Fever To The Physician

• 13 MDS & Billing News