Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs) validation project.
Schneider, D., Fries, B.E., Foley, W., et al.: Case Mix for Nursing Home Payment:
Resource Utilization Groups, Version 11.
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Resource Utilization Groups, version III (RUG-III) explains the variation in resource use of elderly people each day based on their clinical characteristics.
Fries, B.E., Schneider, D.P., Foley, W.J., et al.: Refining a Case-Mix Measure for Nursing Homes:
Resource Utilization Groups (RUG-III).
Fries, B.E., and Cooney, L.M.:
Resource utilization groups: A patient classification system for long-term care.
Carpenter GI, Main A, Turner G, Casemix for the elderly in-patient:
resource utilization groups (RUGs) validation project.
That brings us to the second of the two studies, Nursing Home Resident Assessment:
Resource Utilization Groups. The report states: "For 46 per cent of the residents the nursing home coded the resident in a RUG that was higher than our reviewer's.
WHEN THE HEALTH CARE FINANCING Administration (HCFA) issued its anxiously anticipated SNF PPS regulation July 31, 2000, many in the SNF community were relieved to learn that HCFA was not proceeding with its proposed plan to increase the number of
Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs) to 178 and redistribute payments.
Last year, CMS issued a regulation making three key changes in the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Medicare prospective payment system, which reimburses SNFs through
Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs).