MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual Version 15.0 Now Available

Posted in INDUSTRY NEWS, Long-Term Care

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP 
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

CMS posted the following message on January 4, 2022:

The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 and accompanying Risk Adjustment Appendix File for MDS 3.0 Quality Measure User’s Manual V15 have been posted. The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 contains detailed specifications for the MDS 3.0 quality measures and includes a Notable Changes section that summarizes the major changes from MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V14.0. The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 can be found in the Downloads section of this webpage and the MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V14.0 has been moved to the Quality Measures Archive webpage. The logistic regression coefficients used to risk adjust the Percent of Residents Who Made Improvements in Function (SS), Percent of Residents Whose Ability to Move Independently Worsened (LS), and Percent of Residents Who Have/Had a Catheter Inserted and Left in Their Bladder (LS) measures have been updated using Q4 2019 data. These coefficients were previously contained in Chapter 4 of the MDS QM User’s Manual V14.0 but have been moved to the Risk Adjustment Appendix File for MDS 3.0 Quality Measure User’s Manual V15.

One file related to the MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual has been posted:

  1. MDS QM User’s Manual V15 Effective 01-01-2022 (ZIP) includes the MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0, which contains detailed specifications for the MDS 3.0 quality measures, as well as the Quality Measure Reporting Module Table that documents CMS quality measures calculated using MDS 3.0 data and reported in a CMS reporting module. MDS QM User’s Manual V15 Effective 01-01-2022 (ZIP) also includes the Risk Adjustment Appendix File for MDS 3.0 Quality Measure User’s Manual V15, whichcontains the logistic regression coefficients used to risk adjust the Percent of Residents Who Made Improvements in Function (SS), Percent of Residents Whose Ability to Move Independently Worsened (LS), and Percent of Residents Who Have/Had a Catheter Inserted and Left in Their Bladder (LS) measures. MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual V15.0 Effective 01-01-2022 (ZIP) is available under the Downloads section of this webpage.

The 102-page updated QM Manual is found here (.zip file) and is effective January 1, 2022.

The QM Manual was previously updated October 19, 2020.