Rug 53 Classification System

Services or iv medication and based the resident classification system on these characteristics.

Rug 53 classification system. Report to congress on patient classification under medicare s prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities 2006 dr. Brant fries presentation 2003 these are slides from the may 2003 presentation by dr. Minimum data set supportive documentation guidelines rug iii version 5 12 34 grouper june 1 2012. Rug iv classification system 66 group with medicare case mix indices for 10 1 2010 instructions.

Determine all of the rug iv groups for which a resident qualifies not just the first group for which the resident qualifies. 2 a manual calculator module in the grouper program that allows the user to enter the rug iii mds items on screen and then view the resulting. Rug iii version 5 12 grouper package files. Mds 3 0 rug iv decision tree 48 grouper minnesota case mix system.

Rug 44 rug 53 distribution chart based on cy 2006 data is available for download from the downloads section below. Mds 3 rug 53 groups. Use the hierarchical classification worksheet in chapter 6 of the rai manual. Major rug categories of rugs rug 34 rug 44 rug 53 rehabilitation extensive services 9 1 rehabilitation services 14 1 2 extensive services 3 1 2 3.

The reason is related to the two different classification systems that are used to organize the rugs. Mds reporting intensified with its use to facilitate rug based payment systems under medicare and medicaid. Hierarchical and index maximizing while providers have been aware of the existence of these two systems in the past a better understanding of the differences between them is essential to being able to work with the rug 53 system. Contents include 1 a dos grouper program that will update rug iii classifications in an mds 2 0 submission file in standard cms format.

Mds 3 rug iii version 5 12 44 grouper. Rug iv classification system 66.