title: Quality assurance in a PaCS and case-mix environment. Patient Care and Services.
abstract: Medicare/Medicaid's new long term care certification survey and case-mix payment systems have important managerial implications for quality assurance programs. These implications are explained in this article and recommendations are made to help skilled and intermediate care nursing facilities function effectively in the new environment.
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D009518:New York; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013597:Systems Analysis