On January 13, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the release of two new free Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (SNF QRP) web-based training courses.
- Section M: Skin Conditions - Assessment and Coding of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries - This course is divided into six sections and includes interactive exercises to test your knowledge related to the assessment and coding of pressure ulcers/injuries. This course should take approximately 90 minutes to complete.
- From Data Elements to Quality Measures - This course is divided into three sections and includes interactive exercises to test your knowledge related to cross-setting quality measures (QMs), how data elements feed into these cross-setting QMs, how QMs are calculated and appear on QM reports, and how to access and use this data for quality improvement (QI). This course should take 60 minutes or more to complete.
If you have technical questions or feedback regarding the training, please email the
PAC Training mailbox.