The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not release an updated version of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual in the near future, the agency confirmed Thursday.
Provider conference call Wednesday to focus on MDS, RUGs, nursing home payment changes
Aug 27, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host another free conference call Wednesday for providers to learn more about the transition from the RUG-III payment system to RUG-IV. The new MDS 3.0...
An LTC shrink’s mind
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
May 01, 2013
These are the initial posts of the popular new McKnights.com blog “The World According to Dr. El.” See more from her at McKnights.com.
Officials detail MDS, RUG transition options for skilled nursing
Aug 27, 2010
Providers get a week to digest options for MDS 3.0 and RUG-IV transitions discussed during a conference call with federal regulators before attending another call in the series. The next call will be from...
The changes to end-of-life skin wound classification in the most recent Minimum Data Set update are ultimately a positive for long-term care, but regulatory ambiguity and potential legal concerns still...
Care teams now at risk as MDS changes roll out
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 28, 2023
It’s been widely billed as the biggest change to the Minimum Data Set in more than a decade, and on Sunday, version 1.18.11 of the MDS 3.0 finally kicks in.
Colliding factors threaten to ‘muddy’ state Medicaid reimbursement
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 04, 2023
Several converging factors could make the next few years especially complicated for state Medicaid systems, with the potential for new cost-setting strategies to affect providers from coast-to-coast.