Providers will be greeted at the end of the month by more important tweaks and changes to multiple parts of the Minimum Data Set resident assessment tool.
The top long-term care stories of 2023
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 18, 2023
Long-term care providers were intent on dismissing undesirable memories of the COVID-19 pandemic as much as possible in 2023, but the year’s top stories revealed there were still remnants of it to...
Providers get final session to query federal regulators before MDS 3.0 / RUG-IV start
Sep 10, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a skilled nursing / long-term care Open Door Forum conference call for providers at 2 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday. It is the final regularly...
Government conference call will let providers give, get an earful on latest MDS 3.0 changes
Oct 22, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has hosted free monthly update conference calls for nursing home operators for several years. Next Thursday’s edition is bound to be one of the most popular...
CMS to implement Interim payment system for RUG-IV in October
May 25, 2010
A new payment plan for the RUG-IV case-mix classification system will take place on Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Monday.
Implementation of RUG-IV payment plan in 2010 to be interim measure, CMS stresses
May 26, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement “interim” payments that reflect the MDS 3.0 and RUG-IV system this October only if Congress does not pass legislation repealing the...