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Cornerstone Clinical Consulting assists skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and long term care (LTC) facilities in optimizing current and future Medicare and WA State Medicaid resource utilization grouper (RUG) scores, used for payment and revenue purposes. Focused reviews include WA States new quality incentive payment (implemented July 2016) and use of specific Quality Measures.
Cornerstone Clinical Consulting provides teaching and training to the MDS interdisciplinary team (IDT) members to help better understand entitled reimbursement based on the RAI (Resident Assessment Instrument) coding criteria. |
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Consulting services include regularly scheduled visits to provide routine reviews (or testing) of completed MDS assessments for optimization of the case mix and or RUG / PPS scores. Consulting guides in accurate MDS coding criteria, based on Medicare and Medicaid rules. Each visit is concluded by an exit meeting with the Administrator and DNS to go over the findings of the day.
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As part of the Cornerstone Clinical Consulting program, facilities receive regularly scheduled visits wherein a Cornerstone clinician reviews clinical records and recently completed MDS assessments for optimal RUG coding, based on RAI (resident assessment instrument) coding criteria.
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Colleen is an exceptional speaker, a much sought after MDS coding trainer. She specializes in teaching MDS and RUGs for both State and Federal scoring criteria.
For more information on Training click here. See Contact Page to request additional information. Training Topics included, but not limited to:
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