Texas medicaid adjusts the rug 34 relative risk weights to reflect local practice to establish person level payments.
Rug score nursing home.
This distribution was used to calculate the nursing case mix indices.
The higher the rug score the higher the medicare reimbursement to the nursing home.
The resource utilization group score rug score appears near the very end of the mds 3 0 in section z.
The most important factors in the rug score are the levels of physical occupational and speech rehabilitation therapy the patient receives and the complexity of the nursing care the patient requires.
That are certified by cms.
Rug resource utilization groups is a patient classification system for nursing home patients used by the federal government to determine reimbursement levels for skilled nursing home facilities.
The rug score shows the type and quantity of care required for each individual resident.
A week minimum at least 2 disciplines 1 discipline 5 days 2nd at least 3 days.
The rug score indicates the level of the patient s care requirements.
Private sector nursing homes in 1990 and is updated periodically.
Having a minimum activity of daily living adl dependency score of 2 or more.
The mds data are prepared by an mds coordinator who is a nurse.
Updated 2001 distribution of days for the rug 44 and rug 53 models.
Major rug iv category rug iv score characteristics associated with major rug iv category rehabilitation plus extensive services rux rul rvx rvl rhx rhl rmx rml rlx residents satisfying all of the following three conditions.
The rai mds was implemented in all u s.
Rug iii v5 12 descriptors for sb mds 2 0 category adl index end splits rug codes 16 18 ruc 9 15 rub rehabilitation ultra high rx 720 mins.
They require nursing homes to identify and act on risk factors to prevent functional decline in residents and to plan care that would delay any decline in residents function.
Mds 3 0 rug iv 66 category table urban adls end splits rug cmi rate 042 aids 2 5 2 or more restorative nursing on 6 days wk bb2 11 253 71 578 46 2 5 none or fewer restorative nursing than required bb1 10 242 47 552 83 0 1 2 or more restorative nursing on 6 days wk ba2 4 210 34 479 58 0 1.
Rug scores consist primarily of the levels of occupational physical and speech therapy a patient receives along with the intensity of nursing services the patient requires.
Rug 44 rug 53 distribution chart based on cy 2006 data is available for download from the downloads section below.
In calculating the distribution 861 unclassifiable records bc1 were deleted from the file.
Of the level of care presumption.
With rug iii it was the upper 35 rug scores and under rug iv it will be the upper 52 rug scores.
4 8 rua 16 18 rvc 9 15 rvb rehabilitation very high.
