Project Type:
Modular (Joint)Lead Center:
Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care SystemPrincipal Investigator Name:
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Start Date:
10/01/2012End Date:
09/30/2016Participating Centers:
- Kentucky Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System
- Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
- Regional SCI Center of the Delaware Valley
- Rocky Mountain Regional SCI System
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System
- University of Pittsburgh Model Center on Spinal Cord Injury
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Abstract:
The Medicare program plans to revise the mandated patient assessment data sets, including the IRF-PAI/FIM® instrument, that are used to determine Medicare payments and monitor quality. The revisions are expected to include the use of new functional assessment items developed by the Medicare program as part of the post-acute care payment reform demonstration. The specific aims of this project are to: 1) review, discuss and select new functional assessment items from the CARE tool and other existing instruments, and 2)examine the relationship between the FIM data and the new functional assessment data at the item-level and scale-level.
