Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you read my jRAVEN blog a week ago, you need to apply the most recent update to your system ASAP.  Here’s a snippet of the release notes for jRAVEN 1.7.5.: jRAVEN (version 1.7.5) is now available for download which contains the following updates:   The new…… Continue reading jRAVEN Updated – Again

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS just posted two (2) September 2020 updates to MDS reporting guides: MDS 3.0 Provider User’s Guide_Section 5: Error Messages CASPER Reporting MDS Provider User’s GuideCASPER Reporting MDS Provider User’s Guide_Section 11: MDS Quality Measure Reports CASPER Reporting MDS Provider User’s Guide_Section 13: SNF Quality Reporting…… Continue reading Updates to MDS and CASPER Provider Reporting Guides

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to announce the Confidential Dry Run Reports containing FY 2018 and FY 2019 performance scores for the Skilled Nursing Facility Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalizations measure (SNF HAI measure) are now available. Performance scores are based on…… Continue reading Confidential Dry Run Reports for SNF Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) Requiring Hospitalizations Measure Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS updated Appendix B of the RAI User’s Manual on September 24, 2020. In addition to the listing of the state Coordinators and other key players*, CMS provided a Changes to Appendix B, September 2020 Update document.  I’ve not seen such a document before – it’s…… Continue reading RAI Manual Appendix B Updated

Jenn Feige – ezPBJ CMS has announced that Q2 2020 data (January 1 – March 31) is due no later than November 14 for facilities that choose to submit. The alert was posted on the CMS PBJ  portal and reads: New Q2 Deadline:CMS has established November 14, 2020 as the new deadline for the Q2…… Continue reading CMS UPDATE: Q2 2020 Optional PBJ Data Due November 14

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Data Collection Software: jRAVEN The Resident Assessment Validation and Entry System (jRAVEN) was developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). jRAVEN is a free Java based software application which provides an option for facilities to collect and maintain MDS Assessment data for subsequent…… Continue reading jRAVEN Updated in Preparation for MDS 3.0 v1.17.2

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare We’re 2 weeks out from October 1, 2020 – the date we begin using the MDS 3.0 Item Set, version 1.17.2.  If you participated in (or listened to the on-demand recording of – it’s still available) my MDS 3.0 Changes: What You Need to Know for…… Continue reading FY2021 State Medicaid Case-Mix Calculations

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Measure Call for Public Comment The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) is seeking input from the public as part of the measure development process. CMS has posted Draft Measure…… Continue reading Draft Measure Specifications: SNF Healthcare-Associated Infections Requiring Hospitalizations for the SNF QRP

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Coordinator – Briggs Healthcare Late afternoon on Friday, September 11, 2020, the Iowa Department of Human Services and the Iowa Medicaid Enterprise announced (INFORMATIONAL LETTER NO. 2162-MC-FFS) the state’s methodology for Medicaid case-mix calculation for reimbursement purposes. Effective October 1, 2020, Iowa Medicaid will begin collecting the PDPM payment codes…… Continue reading Iowa MDS Coordinators: IA DHS/IME Announce MDS for Medicaid Case-Mix Starting 10/1/2020