Advanced instruction in the MDS
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 24, 2005
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Occasionally, Minimum Data Set (MDS) coordinators are dismayed to learn that if they combine an Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)-required admission MDS with a prospective payment system (PPS)-required 14-day MDS, they will not be able to use grace days to appropriately capture the services the resident received during the stay.
There is an easy solution, however: You are not required to combine the two assessments. Complete them separately and submit the OBRA assessment within the required time frame while using grace days to project out for the PPS assessment to capture appropriate services, such as therapy.
Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the new online course, "Nursing CE Series: Advanced Instruction in the MDS - Improving Assessment, Coding, and Processes." For more information on this and other courses for nursing credit in our Nursing library, go to www.hcprofessor.com and click on Nursing CE Series.
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