The Schizophrenia Diagnosis in a Skilled Nursing Facility

There is so much going on in the Long Term Care (LTC) market in 2024 related to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) initiatives it is easy to overlook one or think that it is complete.  This might be the case with the CMS roll out of audits to monitor accurate coding and documentation of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. CMS initiated these audits, announced on January 18, 2023, in QSO-23-05-NH, in an attempt to identify…