Can Form 990 Schedule H Part V Section B 2023-2024

All right, so we're going to talk about section B this morning. As Jennifer said, there are not a lot of changes in Section B, but this is a critically important section because it really sort of sets up your sense of who the resident is and their ability to see, hear, and communicate. It's fundamental to their life in the facility, so this is a really important section to get right, even if it's not a section that's changed the whole wide. So, what are we going to try to do this morning? We're going to talk about the intent of the section, identify the communication skills that need to be assessed, and then summarize coding requirements for some of the few modified items. If you'll notice, we moved some of these sensory items before the cognitive section because, again, it's really important to know about someone's ability to see, hear, and communicate before you start assessing their cognitive abilities. So, you're going to be looking at the hearing ability to understand and communicate with others and visual limitations in this section. The first item in this section is very familiar to you at this time. It's B-100 comatose, and it's just basically to determine if the resident is comatose or in a persistent vegetative state. That item is unchanged from the past, and I think the main thing to note with this item is that it requires a diagnosis of being comatose or in a persistent vegetative state in the medical record by either the physician, nurse practitioner, or clinical nurse specialist as allowed by state law. So, I think that's the most important thing to underscore about this unchanged item. The next item is B-200 hearing, and this asks about the ability to hear with a hearing aid or...