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MDS Accuracy Blog: Missed Opportunities and Mishaps Section K – The Most Common Mistakes

In this Minimum Data Set (MDS) Accuracy Blog, we will highlight Sections and items in the MDS to review key misses that the experts at LW Consulting, Inc. (LWCI) have encountered. At LWCI, we thrive in partnering with clients to complete audits or provide consultative services to support concerns. As the experts at LWCI conduct audits, we identify commonalities with coding. Throughout this blog series we will be sharing information on optimal MDS coding, based…

PDPM Snapshot: Answers at a Glance

How do you get  Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) reimbursement? If there is no speech, will the patient forfeit that component? Do you know the base rate? Is the reimbursement less after day 20? These are some of the recent questions that have been asked by those who are working in the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) setting. While it is true that the software used by your company should calculate the PDPM reimbursement Case-Mix Index (CMI),…

Why are Therapy Audits so Important? Top Risk Areas Identified in Skilled Nursing Therapy Audits [Part 4 of 4]

Welcome back to our series! Did you miss the previous blogs in this series? Find them here: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3. Finalizing the Countdown: Auditors at LW Consulting, Inc. (LWCI) review thousands of skilled nursing facility (SNF) records every year and yet negative trends continue to be identified in documentation. Looking ahead to 2023, after several years of experience working with the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), therapy issues contribute to these negative trends in documentation. It is astonishing…