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Coding Section N0350, Insulin

MDS 3.0 Insider, April 16, 2012

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Version 1.08 of the RAI User’s Manual contains many changes that went into effect April 1. Keeping track of all the changes is enough to make your head spin. So let’s take it one step at a time and review the coding instructions for Section N0350:

• Coding instructions for N0350A: Enter in Item N0350A, the number of days during the 7-day look-back period (or since admission/entry or reentry if less than 7 days) that insulin injections were received.
• Coding instructions for N0350B: Enter in Item N0350B, the number of days during the 7-day look-back period (or since admission/entry or reentry if less than 7 days) that the physician (nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or clinical nurse specialist if allowable under state licensure laws and Medicare) changed the resident’s insulin orders.

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