Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Surveyor Antipsychotic QM has new number, less exclusions

The Long Stay Antipsychotic QM that is used in the Surveyor QMs has a new number and less exclusions.  The old QM number was N031.01 and it is now N031.02.  I haven't found anything on the CMS website yet to explain the change, but if CMS did what was promised,  this QM now matches the public CMS QM which only excludes Schizophrenia,  Huntington's Disease and Tourette's Syndrome. I became aware of this when I pulled the QMs from Casper for a client since April 1st.  Remember,  as AMDA says,  dementia with behaviors is not an appropriate diagnosis for antipsychotic use.

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