Nursing Home MDS Roster Submission Starts April 4th

Nursing homes will need to upload their Jan. 27, 2016 MDS census rosters between Apr. 4th and Apr. 29th. The Department of Health (DOH) is reminding homes that all MDS data for the Jan. census must be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and accepted by March 25, 2016, if it is to be reflected in the home's Case Mix Index (CMI) calculation. The notice DOH issued is copied below.

Please keep in mind that all residents listed on the Jan. 27, 2016 census roster must have an assessment submitted, even if not required by regulation. Residents listed on the roster for whom there is no MDS assessment match in the CMS database, will be presumed to be a Medicaid patient and be defaulted to the lowest RUG category for purposes of the CMI calculation.  

Contact:  Darius Kirstein, dkirstein@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8841  

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Dear Administrator:

The Quality Improvement Evaluation System (QIES) will be down from Wednesday March 16, 2016 through March 21, 2016.  Due to this unexpected downtime the collection schedule for the January 2016 Census has been moved.  The census upload period  is now:

Monday April 4, 2016 through Friday April 29, 2016

All facilities are reminded to take steps to ensure that all MDS data for assessments effective for the January census is submitted and accepted by March 25, 2016.

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NEWS ITEM:

The extended QIES downtime begins on Wednesday March 16, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. EST and ends Monday, March 21, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST. All QIES systems will be down during this time. Users will not be able to connect to any QIES systems including the submissions systems and CASPER Reporting.

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If you have any questions please contact PRIMail@health.ny.gov with the subject line April Census Upload.

Thank you.