Future Changes to Pre-Admission Screening and Pre-Admissions Screening Resident Review

• Indiana PAS Update

Last year IHCA formed a PAS Task Force at the request of the Division of Aging (DA) in order to help the DA with ideas to reform the PAS process.  With the passage of Senate Bill 465 in the 2015 Legislative Session we are on our way to reforming the PAS process as we know it today.  That law requires that the current PAS statute expire next July 1, 2016.   The DA intends to put in place of PAS an options counseling process for a portion of the population that may be admitted to a nursing facility.  The law requires the DA to issue a report to the legislature by November 1st that addresses the replacement of PAS with options counseling and any necessary changes to PASRR.

• PASRR Technical Assistance Session

The DA is first focusing on reforming the PASRR process, looking to an electronic solution that is much faster than the current process Indiana has today. The DA has engaged the PASRR Technical Assistance Center (PTAC, http://www.pasrrassist.org/http://www.pasrrassist.org/) for help with this process.  PTAC has scheduled provider/industry-focused moderated sessions for June 4th.  The objective of that session is to get down to the specifics of each provider/industry groups issues with the current process and how the DA’s path forward can solve those issues.  Members of the IHCA PAS Task Force will be attending the session on June 4th and we will report back to the IHCA membership.