Crosswalk for 30-day comments CMS-2744 A and B

Crosswalk for Changes to END STAGE RENAL DISEASE MEDICAL
INFORMATION SYSTEM ESRD FACILITY SURVEY (DIALYSIS UNITS ONLY)
(CMS-2744) in Response to 30-day Public Comments

Section of Revised CMS-2744A
(7/25)

Type of Change

Rationale for Change

Staffing

Remove: Staff to Patient Ratio

Removed in response to concerns
expressed from public comments

Section of Revised CMS2744B

Type of Change

Rationale for Change

Changed to “Patients Who
Received Transplants at this
Facility”
Restructured the section into two
tables:
First Table to count Donors for
Transplants Performed at this
facility

Clarified to ensure clear
communication of transplants
received at the surveyed facility
Clarified to ensure clear counts
from each facility of: 1) Transplant
Donors and 2) Types of Transplants
performed at each facility

Field #42

Fields #47-53

First Table:
47 Deceased
48 Living Related
49Living Unrelated
50 Total Donors (fields 47-49)
Second Table to count Transplants
Performed at this facility
51 Kidney Only
52 Multi-Organ
53 Paired Exchange
Instructions

Change field #50 to Count the Total
Number of Donors for each
category: #47 (Donors)+#48 (Living
Related Donors)+49 (Living
Unrelated)

To align instructions to count the
total number of donors by category
in fields 47, 48, and 49

Instructions

Instructions

Instructions

Instructions

Instructions
Instructions

Change field #51- Add Transplants
Performed at this facility- Kidney
Only
Enter the number of kidney only
transplants performed at your
center, as of the last day of the
survey period
Remove Original field #52
Change field #52-Add Transplants
Performed at This facility- Multi
Organ
Enter the number of multi-organ
kidney transplants performed at
your center (i.e. kidney-pancreas),
as of the last day of the survey
period
Change field #53- Add Transplants
Performed at This Facility- Paired
Exchange
Enter the number of pairedexchange living donor kidney
transplants performed at your
center, as of the last day of the
survey period
Remove original field #52
Change field #52-Add Transplants
Performed at This facility- Multi
Organ
Enter the number of multi-organ
kidney transplants performed at
your center (i.e. kidney-pancreas),
as of the last day of the survey
period
Renumber original field #53 to #54
Renumbers original field #54 to #55

To align instructions to count
numbers of kidney-only transplants
performed at this facility

To align instructions to count
numbers of multi-organ transplants
performed

To align instructions to count
numbers of paired-exchange living
donor kidney transplants
performed at this facility

To align instructions to number of
Multi-Organ transplants performed
at this facility

To align instruction number fields
To align instruction number fields