What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a web-based training course on the post-acute care (PAC) patient assessment instruments (PAI) and quality reporting programs (QRPs) for all PAC settings.
What else to know: The updated training provides a high-level overview of data elements within the patient/resident assessment instruments across PAC settings, including inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), and home health (HH) agencies, and discusses the relationship between these data elements and the QRP for each setting.
The training also addresses quality measure (QM) calculation and how to access reports and use QM data for quality improvement. The training can be accessed on the HH QRP, IRF QRP, LTCH QRP, and SNF QRP training pages or by clicking on the following link: From Data Elements to Quality Measures Training.
