Longer term care minimum data set

Core set of screening and assessment elements of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI). This assessment system provides a comprehensive, accurate, standardized, reproducible assessment of each long-term care facility resident’s functional capabilities and helps staff to identify health problems. This assessment is performed on every resident in a Medicare and/or Medicaid-certified long-term care facility including private pay.

Looping

The automated diagnosis-related group (DRG) grouper process (computer software program that assigns DRGs) that searches all listed diagnoses for the presence of any comorbid condition or complication or searching all procedures for operating room procedures or other specific procedures.