Prepare for the return of DAVE!
CMS is bringing back its old Data Assessment and Verification (DAVE) program—that’s right, the one that scrutinized nursing homes' MDS errors. Don’t get burned by DAVE reviewers; start auditing your MDSs today.
The MDS Self-Audit: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Minimum Data Set Accuracy, Second Edition, has helped hundreds of nursing homes improve their MDS accuracy. It takes nursing homes step-by-step through the process of auditing their own MDS assessments.
Because the MDS controls Medicare reimbursement, quality indicators, surveys, resident care plans, and publicly released quality measures, it is absolutely vital for nursing homes to focus on MDS accuracy. Without a solid internal system to ensure MDS accuracy, you and your facility risk losing thousands of dollars in reimbursement, receiving poor survey results, and facing possible allegations of fraud!
What’s new in this second edition?
The second edition of The MDS Self-Audit contains updated information and new sections on:
- RUGs 53
- Changes to the RAI User’s Manual
- Consolidated billing
Ensure MDS accuracy—and get the reimbursement you deserve
Inaccurate MDS assessments translate into lost income for your facility. The MDS Self-Audit, Second Edition teaches a facility to audit its own MDSs without the time and expense of hiring a consultant. In this updated version of a best-selling classic, author Rena Shephard offers step-by-step explanation of how to audit each of the items that contributes to reimbursement on the MDS. She’ll give you the information and tools you need to go it alone, including valuable forms and checklists—printable and easily altered to fit your facility’s needs—from the accompanying CD-ROM—to keep you on track.
The MDS Self-Audit gives you all the tools you need to clean up common errors and face DAVE with confidence:
- numerous forms and checklists to audit each part of the MDS process, including RUGs and billing
- a companion CD-ROM containing these forms that allows you to customize them for your facility
- discussion of the 6 trickiest MDS sections and how to tackle them
- an explanation of how to set up routine audits and stay on schedule
- tips on how to use your audit findings to improve your facility’s MDS process
All the countless forms that made the first edition so valuable have been updated for the second edition to reflect this recent spate of changes. Every single form is available on the companion CD-ROM.
Now includes e-MDS—the easiest training product on the market!
Teach your new or temporary MDS coordinators to reach maximum productivity while ensuring accurate coding with this remarkable tool. It’s included on the CD-ROM that comes—FREE!—with your copy of The MDS Self-Audit, Second Edition.
Turn to The MDS Self-Audit to ensure accurate MDS assessments. You'll improve quality of care, get better survey results, and receive proper reimbursement as a result.
About the author:
Rena R. Shephard, MHA, RN, FACDONA, RAC-C, is the immediate past chair of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators, and president of RRS Healthcare Consulting Services in San Diego, providing long-term care consulting and training services to facilities, corporations, and attorneys nationwide. A nationally recognized expert on MDS coding and the Resident Assessment Instrument process, she serves as a consultant to several of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's MDS-related projects and to several state quality improvement organizations.
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