Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The April update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts.  Appendix B 04212023 Changes to Appendix B_April_2023  This month’s changes are:

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The April 2023 refresh of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) data is now available on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC). The data are based on quality assessment data submitted by SNFs to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from…… Continue reading Care Compare April Refresh of SNF QRP Data Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare April 24, 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set and OSA Manual The Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set, OSA Manual, and OSA Change History table are now available in the Downloads section on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual page.…… Continue reading Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set and OSA Manual Released

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare April 21, 2023, CMS posted Transmittal 11988 with same title as this blog.  An accompanying MLN Matters Number: MM13149 was also posted.

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you’re having issues uploading MDS assessments to iQIES (that transition was effective Monday, April 17, 2023), there’s a quick, video resource that can help: Upload an Assessment for MDS Usersis a 6-minute video. 

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted an update to CMS iQIES Survey & Certification User Manuals on April 14, 2023. The CMS iQIES Reports User Manual v2.3 is the most recent update to these manuals with the date of April 17, 2023.  April 17, 2023 is the date that LTC…… Continue reading CMS iQIES Survey & Certification User Manuals

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Vaccines, Treatments and Promising Practices to Improve Resident Outcomes CMS QI Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America, a new audio series produced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is available for listening at https://qioprogram.org/cmsqivoices. This audio series is designed to…… Continue reading New CMS QI Voices Audio Series Offers Nursing Home Leaders the Facts About COVID-19

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the July 2023 refresh. The data contained within the Preview Reports are…… Continue reading SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare “For 67 of the 100 sampled nursing homes, CMS did not accurately report on Care Compare 1 or more deficiencies that surveyors identified during yearly and complaint inspections. The deficiencies consisted of health deficiencies for 34 nursing homes, fire safety deficiencies for 52 nursing homes, and…… Continue reading CMS Did Not Accurately Report on Care Compare One or More Deficiencies Related to Health, Fire Safety, and Emergency Preparedness for an Estimated Two-Thirds of Nursing Homes

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The MDS 3.0 CAT specifications (V1.06.0) are now available in theDownloads section below.  The specifications currently consist of the PDF documentation files, which describe the logic changes and provide pseudocode.  Note that many of the CAT triggers are changing as a result of the V3.01.0 MDS…… Continue reading MDS 3.0 Care Area Trigger (CAT) Specifications Posted for Implementation October 1, 2023