wbardelli

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.

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 for 14 day, 30 day ect not federally required

I said the patient DOES have dentures

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.

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 edentulous is defined as having no "natural" dentition. So, a dental caa will get triggered even though they have dentures and no difficulty eating. We then just explain this in the caa and do not care plan. Just curious if that is how other people are coding.