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Featured Story
MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual Update: Expert analysis
October 4, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual v1.11 Replacement Manual Pages and Change Tables and the RAI Manual v1.11 and Change Tables. The MDS 3.0 RAI Manual v1.11 Appendices A and F were also updated.
In addition to the Manual changes, there are changes to the MDS [...]
Expert Answers
As the transition to ICD-10 nears, it is imperative that long-term care facilities prepare their documentation to be ICD-10 ready. In this 90-minute webcast, expert Karen L. Fabrizio, RHIA, CHTS-CP, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, will focus on commonly diagnosed conditions in SNFs and how they are coded within ICD-10-CM. Through this, she will identify these diagnosis' common documentation pitfalls and what processes need to be reviewed avoid these missteps.
