Re: Tracking PPS Assessments

[Corey Ali]

Title: Tracking PPS Assessments

Becky, At my last job, we had a 47 bed Medicare unit.  I was born lazy, so I used a HUGE white board.  On it, I had the patient name, room #, day of admit, the date of the 5d, 14d, 30d, 60d, 90d and last anticipated day of coverage (start at days available, and change as information from therapy changes) across the top of the board.  As we did each assessment, we would erase the due date, and put in the RUG rate, so we knew the grouper and that the assessment was done.  Each week, I highlighted that weeks assessments with red ink.  We had 2 assessment nurses, and each person had a certain group of patients.  It was easy to look on the board and tell the team the date of any assessment, the RUG group for billing, and the last anticipated day of coverage for Medicare A.  If an OMRA was needed, the date was put in under closest assessment date PAST, and put in in green ink.    Looked a little like this:  (dates are NOT accurate; off the top of my head!)   Rm #    Pt. name  Adm.        5d      14 d     30d     60d    90 d     LAD      Reason to skill 342-2   Smith, A  1/5/03     1/9      1/17    2/3      3/4     4/3        4/14      PT, OT, Nebulizers 321-1    Doe, J.   12/4/02    RHC   RHC   RHC    2/4     3/1        3/11      PT, OT, Speech ----- Original Message ----- From: rlabarge (Becky LaBarge) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:33 AM Subject: Tracking PPS Assessments How do you track your PPS assessments and physician certifications?  We recently increased our Med A population dramatically and tracking all these folks is a real challenge. Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. Becky LaBarge, RN., RAC-C Resident Assessment & Admission Supervisor (816)347-2453, JKV Ext #2453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice:  This e-mail message including attachments, if any, is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.  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.  If you are the intended recipient but do not wish to receive communications through this medium, please notify this office immediately.   --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.574 / Virus Database: 364 - Release Date: 1/29/2004