MDS Coordinator (RN)

Why Join the Stonerise Family?
Leave A Lasting Legacy of Serving Through Love.

At Stonerise, we are Appalachians serving our local neighbors. Our team members are the heartbeat of everything we do: every gesture of loving care for our patients, every smile. We care for our patients like we do our own families, and we care for one another the same way. Join nearly 3,000 team members across West Virginia and southeast Ohio who are dedicated to getting patients back to health and back to life.

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What You Will Do as the MDS Coordinator (RN)

Have a passion for serving others through love? If you want to provide consultation, support, and guidance to team members, Stonerise is for you. At Stonerise, an MDS Coordinator career is more than a job or “a calling” – it’s a chance to leave a legacy of service and love on someone’s life. A legacy that will be remembered by your patients and their families forever. A legacy that will make your life better as well.
As the MDS Coordinator, you will be responsible for managing and directing the process of MDS completion and plan of care. Other responsibilities include managing the overall process and tracking all Medicare/Medicaid documents to assure achievement of the maximum allowable RUG categories. You will integrate information from nursing, dietary, social services, activities, therapy, and physician services to ensure appropriate reimbursement.

Some of your primary responsibilities include:

• Tracking all Medicare/Managed patients to determine continued and appropriate Medicare/skilled eligibility and benefits period by determining skilled level of need
• Performing concurrent MDS reviews to ensure appropriate RUGs category is achieved through the capture of appropriate clinical information. Identifying opportunities to enhance reimbursement
• Participating in weekly Medicare meetings to promote appropriate nursing documentation and identifying nursing needs. Working closely with nursing team leadership and collaborating with therapy and the billing office to ensure correct diagnosis codes, ARD dates, and RUG levels
• Maintaining an accurate schedule of all MDS assessments to include reference dates throughout the patient’s stay and ensures accurate and timely submission of the MDS assessment including case-mix, OBRA, and OMRA.
• Managing data entry function to the accuracy of the MDS and verifying electronic transmissions to CMS
• Coordinating with the Business Office monthly, to communicate case-mix data required for billing such as RUG categories, modifiers, state case-mix scores, etc.
• Completing Triple Check Process monthly to ensure accuracy of assessments, reference dates, therapy minutes/units, diagnosis codes, and RUG levels prior to billing
• Providing case-mix and ADL coding education as needed

Benefits You Will Enjoy

Full-time team member benefits include:

• Paid Time Off
• Insurance benefit package (medical, dental, vision, life, and other voluntary group programs)
• 401 (K) retirement savings plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Advancement opportunities
• Training, development & continuing education opportunities
• Stonerise Chaplain support
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Schedule
Exempt

Education, Licensure & Certification Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing with an active RN license
• Minimum of one (1) year experience in long term care clinical nursing experience required
• Experience with Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, MDS completion, clinical resource utilization, and/or case management is highly desired
• Proficiency with computers; prefer experience with Point Click Care (PCC) and Microsoft Office

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