CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum

 

To: MDS Coordinators, Directors of Nursing, Billing and Coding Personnel, Licensed Nursing Facilities Administrators This Open Door Forum is open to everyone From: The Health Facilities Education and Quality (HFEQ) Branch of the Health Facilities and Emergency Medical Services Division (HFEMSD) The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum is scheduled for: Thursday, August 4, 2022 Start Time:  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET); Please dial in at least 15 minutes before call start time. This call will be Conference Call Only. To participate by phone: Dial: 1-888-455-1397 & Conference Passcode: 5109694 Conference Leaders: Tammy Luo & Jill Darling **This Agenda is Subject to Change** Opening Remarks Chair – Todd Smith (Center for Medicare) Moderator – Jill Darling (Office of Communications) Announcements & Updates FY 2023 SNF PPS Final Rule FY 2023 Updates to the SNF Payment Rates Recalibration of the PDPM Parity Adjustment Changes in PDPM ICD-10 Code Mappings Permanent Cap on Wage Index Decreases SNF Quality Reporting Program SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program Request for Information: Revising the Requirements for LTC Facilities to Establish Mandatory Minimum Staffing Levels Updates to the Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities Requirements Physical Environment Requirements Qualification Requirements for the Director of Food and Nutrition Services in Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities MDS transition to iQIES SNF Quality Reporting Program Reconsideration and Public Reporting updates Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Reconsideration and Exception & Extension webpage Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Public Reporting webpage MDS Errata-Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual webpage PBJ Update Policy Questions should be sent to NHStaffing@cms.hhs.gov Technical Issues/Questions should be sent to iqies@cms.hhs.gov Five Star Technical User’s Guide  https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/certificationandcomplianc/downloads/usersguide.pdf PBJ Website:                  https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-                           Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/Staffing-Data-                   Submission-PBJ.html  II. Open Q&A