CMS Manual System - Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

(i) Admission assessment.
(ii) Annual assessment.
(iii) Significant change in status assessment.
(iv) Significant correction of prior full assessment.
(v) Significant correction of prior quarterly assessment.
(vi) Quarterly review.
(vii) A subset of items upon a resident’s transfer, reentry, discharge, and death.
(viii) Background (face-sheet) information, for an initial transmission of MDS
data on a resident that does not have an admission assessment.
Intent: §483.20(f)(3):
Facilities are required to electronically transmit MDS data to the CMS System for each
resident in the facility. The CMS System for MDS data is named the QIES ASAP System.
Interpretive Guidelines §483.20(f)(3):
Background (face-sheet) information refers to the MDS Entry tracking record, while the
discharge subset of items refers to the MDS Discharge assessment.
§483.20(f)(4) Data format. The facility must transmit data in the format specified
by CMS or, for a State which has an alternate RAI approved by CMS, in the format
specified by the State and approved by CMS.
Intent §483.20(f)(1-4):
The intent is to enable a facility to better monitor a resident‘s decline and progress over
time. Computer-aided data analysis facilitates a more efficient, comprehensive and
sophisticated review of health data. The primary purpose of maintaining the assessment
data is so a facility can monitor resident progress over time. The information should be
readily available at all times.
Interpretive Guidelines §483.20(f)(1-4):
―Encoding‖ means entering MDS information into a computer.