Topics Related to Facilities

Effective July 1, 2021, NC Medicaid will increase fee-for-service rates and establish rate floors for facility-based crisis and mobile crisis management services that will mandate minimum reimbursement rates.

This bulletin updates and extends NC Medicaid’s reimbursement for allowable COVID-19 testing of nursing facility staff and healthcare personnel. 

This bulletin revises the COVID-Response Site criteria established in SPECIAL BULLETIN COVID-19 #82.

Strong infection prevention and control practices are critical to reducing the transmission of COVID-19 within long-term care facilities. NC DHHS is reiterating its expectation that providers participate in the infection prevention and control activities. 

This bulletin outlines the process by which nursing homes may access interim payments of State-administered federal funding to support compliance with Secretarial Order No.2.

On May 15, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 item sets (version 1.17.2) to support the calculation of Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) case mix groups on all Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) assessments.

This bulletin replaces SPECIAL BULLETIN COVID-19 #79 in its entirety. NC Medicaid has temporarily modified its Telemedicine and Telepsychiatry Clinical Coverage Policy to better enable the delivery of remote care to Medicaid beneficiaries. 
 

This article talks about the new help desk number for PASRR, the new fax number for PASRR-related documents and uploading PASRR-related documents to NCMUST.

The Department of Health and Human Services is implementing the Referral Screening Verification Process for individuals being considered for admission to an Adult Care Home effective Nov. 1, 2018.

Beginning Sept.1, 2018, adult care home and nursing home Pre-Admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR) submissions through Provider Link will no longer be accepted.