Conversations Blog

Jenny Albertson, NHA

Director of Quality & Regulatory Affairs

BIMS Educational Video from CMS

NEW RESOURCE AVAILABLE: BIMS and BIMS Summary Score Explainer Video

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a 3-minute, animated explainer video, BIMS and BIMS Summary Score: Stopping and Coding an Incomplete Interview for SNF Providers.

This video was developed to assist providers in accurately determining when the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) should be stopped, and how to code the remaining items in this situation.

The video is now available on the SNF QRP Training page and through the following link: BIMS and BIMS Summary Score: Stopping and Coding an Incomplete Interview Explainer Video.