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As a broad River Rehab Insider, we’d like to give you the opportunity to preregister for our upcoming Broad River Reflections presentations. We have an engaging series of training events planned for 2023 that you will not want to miss. Each training will provide 1.5 hours of NAB and ANCC credit. Join us for the…...
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023. With all of the changes, challenges and opportunities facing us this year, it’s good sometimes return to areas of the fundamentals of SNF regulation and remind ourselves how important to keep these in focus as well. In February od 2022, you may remember that we completed a BRR Reflections…...
It, still the season for giving right? So… we thought we would provide you with some post Christmas, pre new year reading courtesy of CMS As you may be aware, CMS promised a full set of MDS 3.0 v1.18.11 item sets before the end of the year. Well, CMS has gone and done it again.… Continue reading All 9 MDS 3.0 v1.18.11 DRAFT Item Sets Released!
Wow! What a year this has been. I am stunned that it is actually December 15th. Where has time gone? As we reminisce on the last year and look toward all of the changes that are coming our way in 2023, CMS has opened the tap to allow a dribble of information related to MDS…...
It’s Christmas time again. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Where did 2022 go? Maybe we’re enjoying the return to some normalcy after two years of COVID realities we forgot the time. In our haste to 2023, we should reflect on the changes to the 5- star rating in the last year. Namely, the cut point… Continue reading QM Cut points? What’s the big deal?
Well, it’s been a while and there have been a number of important regulatory soundbites recently. Here goes! Soundbite 1: The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency renewal On October 13th, DHHS renewed the COVID-19 PHE for another 90 days. As a result, the existing waivers are still active. HHS has stated they will give 60 days…...
The much-anticipated 5-Star user’s guide including cut point revisions has been posted! These revisions affect the October Care Compare refresh and provider 5-star ratings. As you may be aware, In March 2019, CMS released memorandum QSO-19-08-NH. This memo outlined a plan to update the quality measure (QM) rating thresholds twice annually. The plan was to… Continue reading Knock Knock! Who’s there? The Revised 5-Star User’s Guide!
This is just a heads up regarding a few significant changes occurring soon: iQIES and 5-Star threshold revisions. Internet Quality Improvement Evaluation System (iQIES) Hopefully this is not the first time you have heard about iQIES. If it is, don’t worry, it is very new. In early 2023, CMS will switch systems for providers to…...
Well, Here’s a surprise for your Friday afternoon! CMS just released MDS 3.0 v1.18.11. We were told in the final rule we should expect this is the new MDS sometime next spring. Well we don’t have to wait. It’s here! All of the changes that were to go into effect 2 years ago but were… Continue reading A Nice Friday Surprise! MDS 3.0 v1.18.11 Released!
Note: This Regulatory Reminder is a follow up to a Regulatory Reminder that we posted on April 8, 2022. Lots going on in the regulatory world these days with 5-Star updates and the FY 2023 Final Rule release. Yesterday, CMS posted a “Creating a Roadmap for the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE)”.…...