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This 12-part monthly webinar and coaching series is designed to strengthen facility MDS teams with practical, hands-on lessons in coding accuracy, documentation, and PDPM proficiency. Each session tackles a high-impact topic—ranging from mastering GG and self-care/mobility items, rooting out common coding errors, ICD-10 sequencing, and care planning, to understanding the financial impact of MDS on reimbursement, quality measures, and survey readiness. Move your clinical reimbursement squad toward next level performance–join us for Team MDS!
Target Audience: MDS Coordinators, Nursing Leadership, Interdisciplinary Team, Nursing Home Administrators, QA/QAPI team members
Dates & Topics (every webinar is 2:30pm-3:30pm EST):
January 27 – PDPM Precision (Part 1)
This session emphasizes in depth insights into the payment model, its impact on interdisciplinary team operations, and strategies for success.
February 24 – PDPM Precision (Part 2)
In continuation of part 1, in this session, attendees will learn how to align clinical practices with reimbursement drivers to drive accurate, optimal reimbursement while maintaining compliance.
March 24 – Ruling MDS 3.0 Assessment and Completion
Participants will review regulatory updates, documentation best practices, and real-world coding examples to strengthen compliance, accuracy, and PDPM reimbursement outcomes.
April 28 – Rooting Out Common Coding Errors
This session is designed to assist the IDT members in improving MDS coding accuracy. Participants will gain insight and learn strategies to avoid errors and enhance the facility’s coding integrity and financial performance.
May 26 – Mastering Assessment and Reporting of Self-Care and Mobility/Coding in Section O & GG
This session provides a deep dive into MDS 3.0 Section GG and Section O coding requirements for the assessment and reporting of self-care and mobility. Gain insights into overcoming obstacles to team success in these areas.
June 23 – Clarifying CAAs and Care Planning
Achieve effective care planning through an Interdisciplinary Team approach by bridging the gap between MDS Care Area Assessments and planning care around the resident’s goals and preferences.
July 28 – MDS & Reimbursement Impact
Gain clarity on how MDS 3.0 coding accuracy directly drives reimbursement outcomes across Medicare Part A PDPM, Managed Care, and Medicaid Case Mix methodologies.
August 25 – Expert Quality Measure Management
This session will provide attendees with strategies to lead quality initiatives that elevate care, enhance outcomes and position the facility for success.
September 22 – Ongoing Survey and Audit Preparedness
This session will delve into proven strategies for maintaining compliance and excellence, with practical insights for anticipating and managing survey scrutiny from an MDS perspective.
October 27 – Meetings, Reports & QAPI: Leveraging the IDT Process for MDS, PDPM, and Quality Success
Participants will learn how to structure and lead productive MDS, Medicare, and QAPI meetings that use real-time data and reports to strengthen communication, identify trends, and support compliance.
November 24 – ICD.10 Coding and Sequencing Under PDPM
Attendees will learn how to consistently select the correct primary diagnosis, apply sequencing rules and avoid coding pitfalls that can lead to inaccurate reimbursement and/or claims denials.
December 22 – Optimizing IDT Systems & Collaboration
This session focuses on IDT collaboration, documentation and best practices to support MDS coding and resident outcomes.
Appeals & Denials Management Coordinator , Proactive LTC Consulting
Christine is a clinical consultant with Proactive Medical Review and Consulting. Ms. Twombly is a certified gerontological nurse, a certified resident assessment coordinator (RAC-CT), a certified AANAC master teacher, a licensed health care risk manager (LHRM), and is certified in healthcare compliance (CHC).
Christine has more than 28 years of experience in post-acute care, including many years of hands-on experience with MDS assessments and related care planning. She has worked under Medicare PPS for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) since its inception. She has extensive experience working with SNFs to conduct Medicare documentation and billing compliance assessments and providing assistance with third-party medical review and the appeals process.
Clinical Consultant, Proactive LTC Consulting
Eleisha Wilkes is a Registered Nurse and AANAC certified MDS consultant with over fifteen years of experience in long term care. She has served as a Director of Nursing, Case Manager and Resident Assessment Coordinator with positive results in achieving MDS coding accuracy and person-centered care planning through effective systems, staff development, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. Eleisha specializes in MDS validation audits, reimbursement compliance, and competency-based staff education programs. As a nurse consultant with Proactive, she conducts mock surveys, teaches extensively on MDS coding, QAPI, phase 3 preparedness, and is assisting facilities with PDPM impact analysis reviews and transition projects.
Clinical Consultant, Proactive LTC Consulting LLC
Sarah is a results driven healthcare leader with over 25 years of healthcare experience in a variety of settings, acute and post-acute. Her background includes serving as a Clinical Trainer and Healthcare Solution Consultant Engineer for software companies. In addition, Sarah was formerly a Vice President of Clinical Reimbursement for a large successful nursing home provider, and has been a Director of Nursing and MDS Coordinator. Sarah’s areas of expertise include Quality of Care and Quality Measure improvement, QAPI program development, Clinical Reimbursement (both federal and state), MDS accuracy and process improvement, Clinical Reimbursement Nurse Consulting including PDPM and CMI audits, Clinical Education and Healthcare Consulting/Coaching. Sarah is certified through AAPACN as Director of Nursing Services-DNS-CT, Resident Assessment Coordinator- RAC-CT and a QAPI Certified Professional-QCP-CT.
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CEUs: 1 CEU per webinar. Sessions will be approved by NAB for Administrators, IN licensed social workers, and IN licensed occupational therapists and nurses. Please note that in order to receive continuing education credits for this webinar, you MUST login via the webinar software on your computer, or via the mobile app. We are unable to grant continuing education units for those who call in by phone only without doing so through the GoToWebinar application on your phone. As a registered participant, you will receive access to the webinar recordings. No CEUs are given for watching the recording.
