MDS 3.0 Boot Camp: Beyond the BasicsSM
Course Outline
DAY 1
Module 1: Mastering MDS Assessments
- Types of assessment: OBRA and Medicare
- Balance the number of assessments required with the number of hours in a day
- Frequency of assessment process
- Scheduled assessments
- Unscheduled assessments
- Combined assessments
- Medicare assessment windows and completion rules
Module 2: The MDS 3.0: Your Core Business Tool
- Conquer the challenges of supporting MDS documentation
- Uncover problematic coding and communication areas
- Demonstrate how the interview process can foster patient satisfaction
- Improve data gathering techniques to ensure MDS integrity
- Introduce operational enhancements to your MDS process
- Identify opportunities to expand customer service
DAY 2
Module 2: The MDS 3.0: Your Core Business Tool
(cont.)
Module 3: A Meaningful Approach to the CAA
and Care Plan Process
- Streamline your CAA and care plan processes
- Real-time risk factor identification
- Distributing data capture throughout the assessment process
- Using tools, evidence-based resources, and worksheets
- Use your software to accommodate an improved CAA process
- Complete a CAA
- Care plan components and requirements
Module 4: Quality Outcomes and Culture Change
- Quality measurement authority and overview
- Analyzing outcome reports for linkage to the MDS
- MDS impact on the survey process
- MDS impact on the Five-Star Quality Rating System
- Use the MDS process and outcomes to direct facility culture change
- Culture change for organizational performance
- Connecting the customer dots to truly provide person-centered care
Module 5: MDS Team Proficiency and Management
- Interdisciplinary and team-based approaches and processes
- Use CQI principles to build your team
- Build the MDS team
- Team building from the top down
- Role of the MDS coordinator
- The value of a case-mix coordinator
- Use resource tools that work
DAY 3
Module 6: Connecting Medicare Coverage
Requirements to the MDS and SN F PPS
- Relating skilled needs and documentation to the MDS process
- Build communication policy and procedures between the MDS team and the billing team
- Rate composition and determination
- Review of categories and reimbursement
- Short-stay methodology calculation
- Therapy minutes calculation
- Impact of ADL coding and process
- The art of ARD selection
- Impact of patient interviews and staff communication on reimbursement
- Ensure that your MDS process and outcomes withstand audit scrutiny
- Trigger points that may flag an audit or review
- Ensure that documentation matches the MDS, the medical record, and the care plan
Module 7: Diagnosis Coding and the MDS
- Determine how to utilize ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for completion of the MDS, monthly billing, and medical records
- Introduction to ICD-10
Module 8: Converting the MDS and Clinical Theory
Into Practice
- Track and prevent the top five hospital readmissions
- Identify clinical educational opportunities for your IDT
- Guidelines for clinical assessments of comorbidities
- Tie clinical pathways into your care planning process
- Documenting and communicating clinical changes
Module 9: Build Your Action Plan for Process
Improvement
- Determining and prioritizing goals
- Establish a timetable
- Implementation - getting staff buy-in
Q&A
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