I was taught to only mark Medicare A per diem since we receive a per diem rate for each resident and everything comes out of this rate, including therapy, supplies, medications, etc. Am I right?
Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: Holly Sox, RN, RAC-C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: payor status Per Diem refers to the room rate, including nursing care, etc. This is what would be included in the daily rate in your fee schedule. Med A Ancillary Services (and Med B Ancillary) are the things such as therapy, medications, certain medical supplies that would be charged separately from the room rate. After day 20, you would also need to mark for resident Medicaid liability or Medicare coinsurance. Holly F. Sox, RN, RAC-C Clinical Editor, Careplans.com www.careplans.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce, Monica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 12:19 PM Subject: RE: payor status > I thought you only checked per diem in addition to med A if resident is into > days 21 on/days that medicare only pays at 80%? > > -----Original Message----- > From: C Hannant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 11:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: payor status > > > the most important answer is who is paying for the bed during this time > frame. so make sure you do "per diem" on all fulls. this question will > probably go away since many nurses don't understand this. you can ask > your bookkeeper if you have one who will assist you. > > cher > > Melinda de la Cruz wrote: > > >how do you code payor status when your resident is > >medicare A? medicare per diem only or both medicare > >per diem and medicare A? > > > > > >===== > >Melinda de la Cruz, R.N., B.S.N., RAC-C > >MDS Coordinator > > > >*******CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE******* This message and any attachment > >are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from > >disclosure and solely for the use of the person (s) or entity to whom > >it is intended. 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