Test Your Knowledge

Test Your Knowledge Questions:

1) The medication, Methanamine, is classified as an "anti-infective". It is not technically an antibiotic as it does not treat active infection. Would this be coded under antibiotic in Section M?

2) Has there been guidance from CMS on which questions of Section GG are looked at for the late-loss ADLs? If we are looking for an ADL decline, what are the triggers? 

3) For what situation would we use the activity not attempted code “10” in section GG? Can it be used when therapy staff, for instance, are unable to complete a task during the first 3 days of the stay and the only documentation available is for car transfer and walking on uneven surfaces? Should the task be coded 10 or changed to 88 for the MDS?