CMS seeks insight from providers regarding its new national patient assessment instrument
Health Care Auditing Strategies, February 1, 2007
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New tool will provide uniform payment system for multiple healthcare facilities
CMS and its policy council are hoping that you will pitch in to help them devise a new, standardized patient assessment instrument (PAI). CMS will use the PAI in several postacute care facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities (SNF), home health agencies (HHA), and long-term care (LTC) hospitals.
During a December 21, 2006, special open door forum, members of CMS' leadership staff presented its goals, timeline, and ambitions for the PAI.
"We hope to have a PAI that is useful and clinically relevant and serves as a continuity-of-care record to support clinical excellence that is flexible and easily modified in response to changes in clinical evidence," said Michael Rapp, director of CMS' quality measurement health assessment group. "We hope it will be feasible for providers and will move us forward, toward an electronic health record."
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