Are your patients willing to be bathing guinea pigs? More than four months into implementation of the drastically revised Home Health Conditions of Participation, home health agencies continue to struggle … Continue Reading →
New quality measure aims to ID discharges followed by hospitalization or death. Concerns about hospices discharging patients alive continue, and a newly proposed quality measure takes aim at the sore … Continue Reading →
Do your staff understand the difference between ‘Partial/moderate’ and ‘Substantial/maximal’ assistance when scoring mobility? In OASIS-D, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes that clinicians score the following abilities based on this … Continue Reading →
Now’s the time for clinicians to polish their general OASIS coding skills. With the OASIS-D changes bearing down on home health agencies, providers are ready to take action — but … Continue Reading →
23 Tip: Make real-life scenarios part of your staff training. Come January, your reimbursement, outcomes, star ratings, and more will depend on a seriously revamped OASIS tool. Use this expert … Continue Reading →
From medical review to star ratings to surveys, expect the revised assessment tool to have a big effect. Don’t let OASIS-D’s impact on a wide variety of your agency’s areas … Continue Reading →
Two items will also be deleted only at certain time points. Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it was dropping 31 items from OASIS in 2019 totally and … Continue Reading →
New GG items should top your priority list. If you think the changes coming to OASIS in January are relatively minor because they involve lots of dropped items and only … Continue Reading →
09 Comment early and often. If you think Medicare needs to change some things about the newly unveiled OASIS-D tool that takes effect Jan. 1, don’t wait until the last … Continue Reading →
Option to pass the buck to appointed board now gone. While the created by the Affordable Care Act was never convened, many Medicare providers are glad to see it finally killed … Continue Reading →
