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Test your knowledge answers:

1. There should not be a problem correcting an MDS that is one year old as long as it had been accepted into the QIES ASAP system. You will use the same correction process as you would for more recent MDSs. If there is a "correction" link beside the assessment, click the link and choose "modification". Once the modification form has been completed and X1100 has been signed, the MDS should open up to allow a correction of the item(s) in error. Once those items are corrected, sign to attest to the accuracy of the items. Close and lock the MDS and transmit.

2. The 5-star report comes monthly around the 18th or the 20th of every month.

3. Correct. Do not code any pressure ulcers/injuries that heal on or before the ARD.

4. A new therapy evaluation is not required after an interrupted stay.

5. In order to cover someone on hospice for Medicare A, the Medicare A coverage must be totally unrelated to the terminal condition. It is not as simple as choosing one of the resident’s other diagnoses.

6. Yes, modifications for all assessments with errors in the last two years would need to be submitted.

7. End of PPS MDS is only done for straight Medicare Part A coverage. They are not required for Medicare Advantage Plans.

8. Yes, upon readmission you would code that fracture as having occurred in the past 180 days.