AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by “PPS Alert for Long-Term Care ”
with Rena Shephard and Jeanne Caruso
presented on November 2, 2006
Is Section G hitting you in the pocket?
Incorrect activities of daily living (ADL) coding can cost your facility $30 - $50 a day per resident. Yet the ADLs remain the most prone to miscoding of all the MDS items, negatively affecting care planning, survey results, and Medicare reimbursement.
Listen to this 90-minute audioconference and learn how to clean up your facility's ADL coding and enjoy better resident care, survey outcomes, and reimbursement as a result. During ADL Coding for Long-Term Care: Ensure Appropriate Reimbursement through Accurate Scoring, experts Rena R. Shephard, MHA, RN, FACDONA, RAC-C, and Jeanne Caruso, RN, RAC-C, will teach you how to identify common coding errors related to the late-loss ADLs, define the ADL scoring in the Resource Utilization Group (RUG) categories, and improve the accuracy of ADL status information provided by certified nursing assistants (CNAs).
AGENDA
- Common coding errors related to the four late-loss ADL—bed mobility, transfer, eating, and toileting
- Facilitating interdisciplinary communication to improve coding accuracy
- CNA input: Is it reasonable to expect CNAs to master ADL coding
- Best practices using ADL flowsheets
- How to calculate an ADL score
- The dollar impact of ADL scoring in Medicare reimbursement
- Explanation of ADL scoring in RUG assignment
- Use of scenarios to practice coding the late-loss ADLs
- Q&A
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Rena R. Shephard, MHA, RN, FACDONA, RAC-C, is the 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 RAI process, she serves as a consultant to several of CMS' MDS-related projects and to several state Quality Improvement Organizations. She also is a scriptwriter and presenter for CMS MDS-related satellite broadcast/Webcasts. Ms. Shephard, who is the founding chair and Executive Editor of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators, was a Director of Nursing Services in skilled nursing facilities for 14 years, with expertise in all aspects of long-term care. She is the author of a number of books about resident assessment and care in nursing homes, and she is a national speaker on those topics. Her latest book is The MDS Self-Audit: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Minimum Data Set Accuracy, Second Edition. Ms. Shephard is a fellow of the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care. She holds a master's degree in healthcare administration from Seton Hall University.
Jeanne Caruso, RN RAC-C, is currently the Corporate Nurse Consultant for Central Jersey Healthcare, a long term care/sub acute managagement company. In this role Ms. Caruso provides many services, which include chart auditing, education, risk management, quality assurance, oversight of the MDS process and interim Director of Nurses. Ms. Caruso is one of the founding Board of Directors for the American Association of Nurse Assessment coordinators. She has been featured in articles for several long term care publications including Post Acute Payment Report, PPS Alert, and Provider Magazine. Jeanne participated in several focus groups to assist in developing MDS accuracy systems as part of the DAVE (Data Assessment and Verification Project). She has spoken at both the local and national level on the MDS process and also participated in an MDS education video project for Primedia Productions.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN:
SNF clinical managers and staff; senior administration, managers, and staff; billing and financial managers and staff, MDS nurses, MDS coordinators, DONs, ADONs, staff developers, consultants, and therapists
BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET:
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools including:
- MDS coding scenarios for practice, along with answer sheet
- Cheat sheet for calculating the ADL index
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
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