Daniel Laffery – Impacting the MDS

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Daniel Laffery – Impacting the MDS

Description:

The MDS One has been one the Most important documents in long-term care. It is not only a vital tool for resident assessment, but it also drives your reimbursement, care plan and survey. A multidisciplinary team with a deep understanding of the Your facility can rise or fall with the RAI process. The MDS It has evolved and now requires more than just the Basic understanding requires basic critical thinking skills. the Each item coded has an impact.

Daniel Laffery, RN and RAC-CT, the This comprehensive, hard-hitting day will feature a presenter who will discuss new strategies for delivering care that is far beyond the norm. the standard. The following topics will be included:

• Documentation for Skilled Nursing Facilities – Evaluating for Gaps
• MDS Coding for Accuracy & Error Prevention
• The importance of timing and scheduling for OBRA/PPS
• Billing and the MDSUnderstanding the Essentials
• Strategies to Reduce Audit Receipts
• Management the RAI Process Requires IDT Approach
• Innovative Critical Thinking Skills to Support Individualized Resident Care Plans
• Preparations for QI, QM, and QAPI the Next Survey

OUTLINE

Making it all work: What documentation is required for SNFs?

• Different methods for comprehensive documentation in clinical practice
• Documentation components that relate to the MDS Particularly
• What are you waiting for? the “holes” in documentation?
• Evaluation of current documentation practices to identify gaps

Coding the MDS: Are you confident in your assessments?

• Proper interpretation the question
• Take credit the care delivered – across the Interdisciplinarity team
• How to conduct resident interviews and when
• The financial impact of reimbursement
• Sections that are key to the MDSDemonstration of correct (and inaccurate!) coding

MDS Coding for OBRA or PPS

• You are eligible for Medicare benefits
• Tips for managing the Medicare stay
• The most popular MDS Coding errors and how to avoid them
• The “normal” Schedule for PPS – and special circumstances
• Setting the scene: Some considerations the ARD (timing/scheduling)
• Management the OMBRA schedule – and the Impact on reimbursement

Medicare Compliance: The Clinical and Billing Connection

• Calculation of RUGs Starting the MDS (accounting to acuity).
• HIPPS codes the impact on payment dates
• Based on these factors, payment dates are set. MDS Coding
• Implementation of a “Triple Check Process” Before submission the UB04
• Strategies to decrease audit recoveries

Management the RAI Process Requires a Multidisciplinary Approach

• Do you know how CATs work?
• Locate the root cause for a CAT
• How it links to the other components of a CAA the care plan

Individualized Care Plans: Get it done the Goal of the Person-Centred Care

• Best practices standards
• How critical thinking can be applied the Evaluations
• It all can be connected using these methods:
  • Person-Centered Care, Standards of Practice, Pay-For-Performance, Medicare, and Survey Results

Quality Indicators/Quality Measures the Data to Improve Facility Operations and Care Delivery

• Prepare yourself….the impact and role of QI/QM in the survey process
• Know how to validate the Comparing QI/QMs MDS coding?
• Your QAPI process: Incorporate the Improved QI/QM results

OBJECTIVES

• Assess new strategies for managing the Skilled Nursing Facilities: Documentation required
• Coding is a skill that can be learned. the Minimum Data Set (MDSTo avoid future mistakes, please use ()
• Demonstrate the Considerations that are essential for OBRA/PPS timing and scheduling.
• Create new strategies to comply with Medicare intent and decrease audit recoveries
• Manage the RAI Process through an efficient but comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach.
• Create individualized resident care plans that include innovative interventions and care approaches.
• Describe how Quality Measures/Quality Indicators could improve the operation of your facility and care delivery.

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ABOUT THE PRESSURER

Daniel Laffery, RN and RAC-CT, It is the Operational manager of the Largest Long-Kansas-based Term Care Consulting firm, serving more than 150 providers in Kansas and Missouri as well as over 4,500 elderly people. This is your opportunity to be a part of the solution. Daniel Providers have been able to use the software to help them analyze a wide range of data. “opportunities”This includes the removal of operating in the Red to operate in the black, navigating complex survey compliance issues and RAC audit prevention, and reduction of recoupment. He is currently a member of LeadingAge of Kansas and Kansas Health Care Association. the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination is also an active Board Member of Kansas Culture Change Coalition. Daniel Current certification as a Resident Assessment Coordinator through the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination. He was previously a long serving member of the American Association for Nurse Assessment Coordination.-As a certified nurse assistant or charge nurse, you can provide long-term care. MDS Coordinator, Director, and Nurse Consultant. Daniel’s expertise has been sought through educational presentations to assist SNF interdisciplinary audiences to optimally understand the There are many complexities involved in the MDS.

Speaker Disclosures

Financial: Daniel Laffery It is the Operation Manager for Sunflower L.T.C. Consultants, LLC. PESI Inc. gives him a speaking honourarium

Nonfinancial: Daniel Laffery Does not have any relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.