Crosswalk

Crosswalk for Changes to END STAGE RENAL DISEASE MEDICAL INFORMATION
SYSTEM ESRD FACILITY SURVEY (DIALYSIS UNITS ONLY) (CMS-2744)
Table. Crosswalk to CMS-2744

Section of Current CMS2744A (3/23)

Type of Change

Rationale for Change

Facility Demographic

Types of Dialysis Services
Offered: Delete: “training” from
“Home Hemodialysis”

Provide clarity that home
hemodialysis service is provided
not just training

Facility Demographic

Add: Days and Shifts the dialysis
facility is open

Provide information about
access to dialysis care

Additions during survey period

Add: “Failed” to “Return after
Transplant”

Provides clarity between dialysis
for a failed transplant as
opposed to supporting a
transplant

Hemodialysis Patients Dialyzing
4 or More Times Per Week

Changed from “Patients
Dialyzing More Than 4 Times
Per Week”

Clarified to more accurately
reflect treatment outside of
standard Medicare claims

Vocational Rehabilitation

Delete: “Patients aged 65 and
older”

Limiting to ages vocational
rehabilitation is available

Vocational Rehabilitation

Delete: Patients attending
school full-time or part-time

Limiting to working patient as
delineated in the Social Security
Act

Staffing

Add: Staff to Patient Ratio

Provide insight into staffing
because of staffing concerns
throughout healthcare

Instructions

Delete: “training” from “Home
Hemodialysis” for Types of
Dialysis Services Offered

Provide clarity that home
hemodialysis service is provided
not just training

Instructions

Add: Instruction on how to
complete “Days and Shifts the
dialysis facility is open”

Provide information about
access to dialysis care

Instructions

Add: “Failed” to in description
of “Return after Transplant”

Provides clarity between dialysis
for a failed transplant as
opposed to supporting a
transplant

Instructions

Instructions to change “Patients
Dialyzing More Than 4 Times
Per Week” from “Patients
Dialyzing More Than 4 Times
Per Week”

Clarified to more accurately
reflect treatment outside of
standard Medicare claims

Instructions

Delete: “Patients aged 65 and
older” and “Patients attending
school full-time or part-time”
from instructions

Limiting to ages vocational
rehabilitation is available

Instructions

Add: Instructions on how to
complete “Staff to Patient
Ratio”

Provide insight into staffing
because of staffing concerns
throughout healthcare