Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
February 16, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Retirement of Section G of the Required Minimum Data Sets will Leave Many Post-Acute Care Providers in Limbo
On October 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CME”) will be retiring Section G, a measure of the functional status of nursing home residents, from the Medicare and Medicaid Minimum Data Sets (“MDS”). In its place, CMS offers Section GG, which places rehabilitation services into its own case mix component instead of including with other clinical conditions.