RE: PRI

[Brenda Chance]

You restart you medicare cycle with a 5 day assessment.  I would carefully assess her to see if there has been a true significant change.  I would look at my last OBRA assessment to see if there has been one, if not just do the 5 day assessment.   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: Bogda Habich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PRI   For some reason I can’t email the list serve and I have your address in my computer so I thought that I would email you with my question.  I had a resident plateau in therapy last day of PT 1/23/04.  cut letter sent, now she is going back on medicare effective 1/28/04.  do I do a sign chg assessment and restart the assessment cycle over again with the 5 day coding it 03 1 or do I continue with her previous medicare schedule and code it 03 2?  Could you get back to me with an answer soon or could you post it on the list serve for me then email me the answer?  Thanks so much.   Dena J Babcock RN Briody Health Care Facility