We say over and over again that we love our customers. One reason is that they help us reach new heights! In addition to many other milestones achieved in 2013, we made it to our 10th year in business and also reached the 10,000,000th MDS assessment transmitted to CMS. We … Read More
Texas HHSC Medicaid managed care information meetings underway
As our Texas customers are probably aware, Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will be implementing several Medicaid initiatives related to changes to the STAR and STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed care programs. We’re betting you have questions. Like maybe… What kind of changes? What are STAR and STAR+PLUS? What are the … Read More
Avoid OIG headaches with new SimpleCFS RN Signature Audit Report
For our Texas customers, we’ve added a new report to SimpleCFS™ that simplifies auditing between submitted LTCMIs and the RN signature on the MDS… and even better, can help you avoid OIG audit headaches and take-backs. There’s been a good bit of discussion on this topic in Texas Medicaid circles … Read More
CMS issues RAI Manual corrections
Of note to our SimpleMDS users, on Nov. 5, CMS issued these corrections to the RAI Manual v1.11: The flowchart “ADL Self-Performance Algorithm”, which describes the algorithm for ADL function items in Chapter 3 Section G (page G-7), and the accompanying change table Coding examples in Chapter 3 Section O … Read More