Filed as: Medical Services - PASRR
South Dakota is moving its preadmission screening and resident review (PASRR) rules from the mental health chapter to the medical services chapter and making several changes to how nursing facility admissions are evaluated. The state is removing the automatic categorical exemption for people age 75 and older, adding a new emergency placement option for people experiencing abuse, neglect, or natural disasters, and clarifying that swing beds are no longer subject to PASRR requirements. The rules also better define when exemptions apply versus categorical determinations, and spell out which state authority (mental health or intellectual disability) handles each type of review and determination.
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The existing PASRR rules will be repealed. The new PASRR rules will be located in a different article, and remove the 75+ age categorical, add a new emergency placement categorial option, remove swing bed from the PASRR requirements, better detail the difference between a PASRR exemption versus a categorical determination, and to better detail the responsibilities of the State Medicaid Authority and Mental Health Authority.
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