Lobbying efforts are underway to get legislation passed that would mandate that all parts of RUGs-IV be implemented Oct. 1, concurrently with MDS 3.0.

Objective Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) is most widely used as a mortality prediction score in US intensive care units (ICUs), but its calculation is onerous. The authors ...

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has identified an issue affecting Resource Utilization Group (RUG) score calculations for long-term care (LTC) nursing facilities (NFs). This issue ...