— Registration has opened for Positive Behavior Management Workshops. The first will be held in Abilene on July 8 & 9, 2013, and the second in Denton on August 1 & 2, 2013. See the news alert page for details, including contact information.
— You may download the corrected (4/5/13) “Change of Therapy (COT) Determination Flowchart” here (PDF).
— A news alert excerpt:
A recent DADS provider alert and an article in The MDS Mentor have clarified the correct way to complete MDS 3.0 item A0410. A frequent provider question is how to prevent MDS records from being submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) when Prospective Payment System (PPS) MDS assessments are completed for private insurance and are marked A0410 = 3 due to bed certification.
Facility MDS data entry software may have a field that staff can mark, to identify PPS MDS assessments completed for private insurance, that prevents marked records from being submitted to CMS. The software may also have a function for permanently removing completed MDS records from the send list without sending them. Facility staff can contact their MDS software vendor to find out if their software has either of these features. The free jRAVEN software downloadable from www.qtso.com does not have these features.
See the news page for more information about these and other alerts.
