Virginia’s New Automated Pre-Admission Screenings System Reduces Delays For Medicaid Long-Term Services & Supports

Virginia’s new paperless, automated reimbursement and tracking system for all long-term care and acute care provider organizations contracted by Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) to perform Pre-Admission Screening (PAS) is helping to reduce delays for long-term care pre-admission screening requests. The new system is called Electronic Pre-admission Screening (ePAS); it is used by the state Medicaid program to see if a patient meets criteria for a nursing facility level of care. DMAS launched ePAS in a soft rollout from May 1, 2015 through June 30, 2015. By August 2015, only 13% of . . .