April 16, 2015
A draft of the MDS 3.0, Sections A and GG, as well as the new SNF Part A PPS Discharge Assessment is available in the Downloads section at the bottom of this page.
April 15, 2015
Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program - Quality Measure Specifications for FY 2016 Notice of Proposed Rule Making:
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act, enacted Oct. 6, 2014, directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “specify quality measures on which Post-Acute Care (PAC) providers are required under the applicable reporting provisions to submit standardized patient assessment data” in several domains, including incidence of major falls, skin integrity, and function. The IMPACT Act requires the implementation of quality measures to address these measure domains in home health agencies (HHAs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs).
The IMPACT ACT also requires, to the extent possible, the submission of such quality measure data through the use of a PAC assessment instrument and the modification of such instrument as necessary to enable such use; for SNFs, this requirement refers to the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0.
This document describes the measure specifications for the quality measures proposed in the Proposed Rule: Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2016. The Quality Measure Specifications for FY 2016 Notice of Proposed Rule Making report can be found in the Downloads section at the bottom of this page.
From Judy: The link to the page is here. Scroll down to see the tools.
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