MDS Alert

Published on Thu Mar 01, 2018 PDF

You can start preparing now for quality measure reporting that will come into play this October for fiscal year 2020. Check out these measures; data collection begins Oct. 1, 2018 through Dec. 31, 2018, for the first year.

• Drug Regimen Review
• Change in Skin Integrity: Post-Acute Care Pressure Ulcer/Injury
• Outcome Measure: Change in Self-Care Score
• Outcome Measure: Discharge Self-Care Score
• Outcome Measure: Change in Mobility Score
• Outcome Measure: Discharge Mobility Score

"You must submit 80 percent of assessment that contains 100 percent of data needed to calculate all of these measures," says Jessie McGill Rn, RaC-Mt, curriculum development specialist at the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination (AANAC) in Denver in a recent webinar about upcoming changes to the MDS.

A 2 percent reduction to the annual payment update (APU) for noncompliance will be applied for Fiscal Year 2020, on Oct. 1, 2019.