Medication Management in Transitions of Care

EFFECTIVE OCT. 1, 2018   Facilities that are found non-compliant will have their Medicare Payment reduced 2%. Drug Regimen Review Quality Measure – At the Beginning of the Stay the following questions will be asked:  Did a complete drug regimen review identify potentially clinically significant medication issues?  Did the facility contact the physician or designee by midnight of the nest calendar day and complete prescribed/recommended actions in response to the identified potential clinically significant medication issues?  At the End of The stay the following question will be asked:  Did the facility contract and complete the physician or designee prescribed/recommended actions by midnight of the next calendar day each time potential clinically significant medication issues were identified since the Admission?  (This Quality Measure will affect the FY 2020 payment determination and subsequent years) Medication reconciliation is the formal process in which health care professionals partner with patients to ensure accurate and complete medication information transfer with the patient from one care level to another.  Patients admitted to a hospital have a 50% chance that a medication error will occur.  Many adverse drug events (ADE) occur as a result of poor communication between health care professionals and patients or caregivers when they are admitted to the hospital, change rooms within the hospital, are discharged to a skilled nursing facility and discharged home to the

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