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Reminder: Changes to LTC Online Portal MDS 3.0 Available on the LTC Online Portal April 1, 2024

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The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) deployed changes to the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0, effective on October 1, 2023. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) worked with the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) to enable systems to intake and store these changes prior to the effective date.

Updates to the Long-Term Care (LTC) Online Portal that display the relevant revisions of the MDS 3.0 Comprehensive and Quarterly assessments with an Assessment Reference Date (ARD, A2300) of October 1, 2023, or later, are available as of April 1, 2024. Updated versions of the viewable and printable PDFs are also available.

This use of the ARD does not alter the HHSC-LTC use of the Entry Date (A1600) as the effective date of MDS 3.0 Admission assessments, and the Date Signed as Complete (Z0500b) as the effective date of all other MDS 3.0 assessments.

Items required for calculating the Resource Utilization Group (RUG) remain present on the LTC Online Portal in Section RUG.

The following MDS 3.0 Comprehensive and Quarterly assessment fields were added, deleted, or modified:

New ItemsModified ItemsDeleted Items
Section A
A1005, A1010, A1110, A1250, A1805, A2105, A2121, A2122, A2123, A2124A0300A, A1000, A1100, A1800, A2100 
Section B
B1300B0100 
Section C
C0900D and C1310  
Section D
D0150, D0160, D0700D0100, D0500, D0500F, D0500HD0200, D0300
Section F
F0700^  
Section G
G0110, G0120, G0300, G0400, G0600, G0900^  
Section J
J0410, J0510, J0520, J0530J0300, J0700, J2800J0400, J0500A, J0500B
Section K
K0520K0710K0510
Section N
N0415N0300N0410
Section O
O0110O0100, O0600, O0700 
Section Q
Q0110, Q0310A, Q0310B, Q0500C, Q0550C, Q0610, Q0620Q0400, Q0490, Q0500B, Q0550A, Q0550BQ0100A, Q0100B, Q0100C, Q0300A, Q0300B, Q0600
Section V
V0100E^  
Section X
X0570A  
Note: ^ Applies to the comprehensive assessment; not applicable to the quarterly assessment

For more information, call the LTC Help Desk at 1-800-626-4117, option 1.