The MDS Guru

By Melinda Renshaw, RN RAC-CT

Helpful tips and tricks for the MDS/ LTC Reimbursement Professional

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The podcast currently has 60 episodes available.

The MDS Guru episodes:

March 14, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 50 - How to Validate Your Cognitive Responses on the MDS for Missouri Medicaid
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Can I summarize? Is an impaired BIMS enough documentation to mark the resident impaired?
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7min
March 09, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 49 - The Discharge Mobility & Discharge Self-Score Scores
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What questions in section GG are used here? Are these included in the 5-star rating?
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March 02, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 48 - When Should I Do A Significant Change?
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Does changing physicians prompt a sig change? My resident is leaving the facility after a major decline. Do I complete a sig change?
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February 17, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 47 - Data elements that cause the 2% APU deduction if DASHED
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What? 13 pages on CMS.gov? We break this down to a very easy subset.
SNF QRP FY2026 APU Table for Reporting Assessment Based Measures and Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements
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February 10, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 46 - What parts of the MDS figure into the Nursing CMI?
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Does walking figure into the nursing CMI? What about HIV or cancer? We briefly cover the entire MDS to reveal what sections play into this calculation. Tune in!
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February 04, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 45 - What primary medical condition category is this diagnosis?
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Is schizophrenia non-traumatic brain dysfunction or medically complex? What category do I choose for this fall with a fracture and subsequent hip replacement?
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January 31, 2025 The MDS Guru Episode 44- How Do I Code This Tube Feeding in Section GG For Eating?
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Wait, my resident is NPO, how do I code eating? My other resident has never ate by mouth?
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January 24, 2025 The MDS Guru Episode 43 - The Draft Item Changes for the October 2025 MDS
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Adding a section R? What does that mean? What will be in it?
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January 17, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 42 - Should I code this weight loss?
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Is this weight loss coded on the last MDS real? Wait, my resident lost weight at 4 months but is back to normal. Do I code this?
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January 10, 2025 The MDS Guru - Episode 41 - When to code a UTI & Sepsis
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The most common erroneously coded QM is a UTI. Are you coding it wrongly too on the MDS? How did the RAI change the coding in relation to sepsis last October?
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7min

FAQs about The MDS Guru:

How many episodes does The MDS Guru have?

The podcast currently has 60 episodes available.