MDS Alert
Quality Reporting:
Coding End-Stage Disease Excludes Residents From These Quality Measures
Published on Wed Nov 23, 2005 
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If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gives you a break in your quality reporting, make sure you get the benefit of it. Coding J5c (physician-certified life expectancy of six months or less) excludes a resident from these QMs: 1. Resident whose need for help with ADLs has increased
2. Resident whose ability to move in and around the room got worse
3. Short-stay residents with delirium
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