Team MDS! - Meetings, Reports & QAPI: Leveraging the IDT Process for MDS, PDPM, and Quality Success

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!

Course Description:

This session explores how effective interdisciplinary meetings and report utilization drive MDS accuracy, PDPM reimbursement, and Quality Measure (QM) performance within the facility’s QAPI framework. 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. The discussion includes best practices for using MDS validation, PDPM, and QM reports to guide decision-making, prioritize action items, and sustain continuous quality improvement across clinical and financial outcomes.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how interdisciplinary meetings and reporting processes support accurate MDS completion and PDPM reimbursement.

2. Identify essential reports that should be reviewed in MDS, Medicare, and QAPI meetings to monitor outcomes and compliance.

3. Integrate Quality Measure (QM) and PDPM data into QAPI processes for ongoing performance monitoring and improvement.

4. Apply structured communication systems to improve team accountability, documentation consistency, and quality outcomes.

CEU Credit: This program is approved by the Georgia Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators, and the Georgia Board of Nursing will earn 1 continuing education hour in the category of Quality Assurance (QA).

Attendance will be tracked, and you must demonstrate full participation in order to receive CEU credit. Therefore, all attendees:

1. Must demonstrate full participation for the entirety of the webinar.
2. Must attend using the link provided to access the webinar.
3. Sign in using the email you used to register for the training.
4. Must be logged on to the webinar via a computer device which enables you to view the slides, and have the ability to engage in chat, respond to polls and post questions in order to be eligible to receive credit.

Attendees who dial in only and do not sign into the webinar on a computer device will not receive credit.

Registration Fees:
$80 GHCA Member $230 Non-member
(each webinar requires a separate registration)

Cancellations: All cancellation requests must be in writing and may be emailed to info@ghca.info or faxed to 678-289-6400. A full refund will be granted for cancellations received within three (3) business days of the training. All "no-shows" and any cancellations received after this date will be responsible for the full cost of registration plus applicable processing fees. GHCA reserves the right to bill for any training materials ordered for this course.