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A
practical guide to MDS coding, trends and news that
affect your payment, quality reporting and regulatory
compliance
(12 Issues)
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Eli's
MDS Alert is your monthly guide to navigating
the confusing path between MDS compliance and
underbilling - a path where one wrong step can
mean thousands in lost reimbursement. Reading
Eli's MDS Alert will give you access to revenue-generating
coding advice and other practical strategies
for getting the most money out of the MDS while
remaining compliant to the latest changesto
this powerful instrument.
Designed
with you in mind, Eli's MDS Alert provides
practical, hands-on advice on how to ace the
MDS everytime. Packed with expert advice, field-tested
tips and strategies, "clip 'n save"
tools you can immediately put to use, and muchmore,
Eli's MDS Alert is your must-have roadmap to
the MDS.
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With
tougher reimbursement rules, new codes, emerging
MDS news, and ever-increasing governmental scrutiny
of providers, you can't afford to guess how best
to approach this important instrument. That's why
Eli's MDS Alert provides seasoned advice
that will help ensure your facility's ongoing success:
Every
issue includes important stories on topics vital
to MDS accuracy. For example:
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Quick
test to target and correct Section G assessment
errors.
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Single
biggest mistake facilities make with pain coding
- and how to make sure it never happens to you.
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Learn
an easy way one Pennsylvania facility increased
its case mix score from 1.020 to 1.30.
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How
to accurately estimate therapy minutes without
penalizing residents, your ledger -- or rousing
DAVE.
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Does
your DON know all she needs to about the MDS?
This checklist will say for sure.
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The
4 MDS sections you should have on your radar
to keep your facility from registering on the
feds' screen.
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Use
this decision tree to correctly codes residents'
ADL self-performance.
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Don't
let falls trip up your survey. Use these MDS
sections to identify residents at risk.
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Think
the MDS just means more work? Here's how to
use it to back up your argument for a more workable
workload.
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Keep
MDS-generated RUG shortfalls from pulling the
rug out from under your reimbursement.
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