wbardelli

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1. coding dental

   wbardelli replied to wbardelli's topic in MDS

   Was not trying to be rude, I'm sorry. Just wanted to make sure people understood I was talking about someone that does have dentures. Not someone that is edentulous.

2. managed care and the mds

   wbardelli replied to michmommylala's topic in MDS

   There is no fine print. An admission assessment is required for federal. You put it in just as an admission, you do not have to put in as admission 5 day and you do not do two seperate admission assessments. You then would continue as you were doing ...

3. coding dental

   wbardelli replied to wbardelli's topic in MDS

   I said the patient DOES have dentures

4. next quarterly

   wbardelli replied to glm777's topic in MDS

   The 90 day assessment would cover Billing days 91-100. Since she didn't die until day 94, you have to do assessment to cover days 91-93 for Billing if you want to get paid.

5. coding dental

   wbardelli posted a topic in MDS

   I have talked to many MDS people in the organization I work for about how to code dental for someone that has dentures as that unfortunately is not an option. We have come to the conclusion that you would code edentulous because in the handbook edent...

6. next quarterly

   wbardelli replied to glm777's topic in MDS