Money Follows the Person: States\' Progress in Using the Minimum Data Set (MDS) to Facilitate Nursing Home Transition

Provides practical information on how state agencies can obtain and use the MDS through Data Use Agreements (DUAs) with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Explores the progress states have made in: using the MDS to facilitate nursing facility transition; identifying barriers that remain; and, suggesting recommendations for changes to the MDS to make it more useful for nursing home transition efforts. We examine three uses of the MDS by nursing facility transition program.