Attention MDS Coordinators: CMS recently issued a statement regarding an error located within the MDS quality measure (QM) table on the provider Five-Star Preview Report for October 2018. The data for the line for percentage of high-risk pressure ulcers was missing, which caused the remaining rows to be shifted up. … Read More
TMHP announces November training webinars for Texas long-term care
Attention Texas providers: Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) is providing a series of webinars for Texas nursing facilities this Nov. 12th-28th, covering how to accurately submit forms and assessments on the LTC online portal. TMHP has asked us to pass along this training information to our customers. All webinars will be … Read More
Important: Planned outage Sunday, Oct. 28th affecting MDS transmissions through SimpleConnect™
Attention SimpleLTC customers: SimpleLTC will be conducting maintenance on Sunday, October 28th from 12:00pm CDT through 6:00pm CDT. During this maintenance window, SimpleConnect™ users can submit MDS batches to SimpleLTC as usual, but they will not be transmitted to CMS until after 6:00pm CDT. This outage will affect all SimpleLTC … Read More
Top 5 reasons to stop by Simple’s booth at THCA
Going to the THCA 68th Annual Convention & Trade Show in Dallas, Oct. 29-31? Here are five reasons why you don’t want to miss visiting SimpleLTC in Booth 314. ezPBJ is your one-stop shop for payroll-based journal compliance, allowing you to assemble PBJ reports from all data sources, identify and … Read More
CMS makes significant change to coding J2000 – Prior Surgery
Attention MDS Coordinators: Be sure you and your staff are aware of this significant change to MDS 3.0 coding for J2000 – Prior Surgery. Immediately after releasing the new MDS 3.0 Item Set on Oct. 1, CMS posted a five-page errata document providing notification of a significant MDS 3.0 change … Read More