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PANAC Discussion Thread

This blog is for discussions on educations you have attended and what the "scuttlebutt" is out there regarding the process changes for the MDS 3.0

  • Network Meeti g for Southeast PA.

    06 Oct 2019 09:07 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    You are invited to attend a network meeting for MDS coordinators and IDT Members to have round table discussion:

    MDS changes/ PDPM

    Where:Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community

    625 Robert Fulton Highway

    Quarryville, PA.        

    When:November 7, 2019 @ 2PM

    E-mail Joy Payne: PayneJ@Quarryville.com

    (RSVP appreciated, NOT required)


  • question regarding physician orders

    01 Mar 2019 14:33 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Following are two questions and the response received re: physician orders.  These are provided for your reference:

    1. Do you count Ophthalmologist visit or Optometrist visits?
    2. If a podiatrist writes in his exams progress note, follow-up in 2-3 months, can this be counted as an order?

    ANSWER

    Since "Orders and Visits" items are no longer CMS required, and are now “State only”, the interpretation of order and visits would be entirely up to each individual States' RAI coordinator. 

    The text below is the position of the PA State RAI Coordinator-

    Only examinations by the practitioners specified in the coding instructions may be considered; and only orders written by those specified practitioners for new or altered treatment may be considered.

    An instruction for when to schedule the next appointment (F/U 2-3 months for example)) is not new or altered treatment.

    A consultation order to another physician in the future would also have to be for new or altered treatment, for example a consultation to start dialysis, before it could be considered.

    Thank You-

     

    Kerry S. Weaver

    HC Senior Consultant

     MYERS AND STAUFFER LC

    6380 Flank Drive, Suite 100

    Harrisburg, PA 17112

    PH 717.541.1203

    PH 800.359.1203

    FX 717.541.1206

    www.mslc.com

  • CMI

    02 Sep 2018 11:26 | Anonymous
    Does anyone have spreadsheets for tracking CMI?  I am especially looking for tools to bring along to clinical and to provide for nurses on the floor in an effort to effectively capture the acuity of residents in our care, as well as a spreadsheet that I can keep in excel format to update and change.  My email is horseplay@pa.net or dsmoker@ccpa.net if you can help.


    Thank you

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