Home Health & Hospice Week

Your staff will need to get comfortable collecting Social Determinants of Health data.

You’ve got a little extra breathing room on OASIS-E implementation of standardized patient assessment data elements (SPADEs). But you may need every minute to get staff up to date on the bevy of new OASIS items they’ll have to collect after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends.

The new items include:

• Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) — OASIS items C0100, C0200, C0300, C0400, C0500.
• Assessment of Cognitive Function (CAM) — C1310 A-D.
• Patient Health Questionnaire–2 to 9 (PHQ–2 to 9) — C0150 A-H, C0160.
• Cancer Treatments — O0110 A-J, O (each lettered section with multiple sub-elements).
• Nutritional Approaches — K0520 A-D.
• High-Risk Drug Classes — N0415 A, E-F, H-J.
• Medical Conditions and Comorbidities — J0510, J0520, J0530.
• Impairments — B0200, B1000.
• Social Determinants of Health (race, ethnicity, preferred language, interpreter services, health literacy, transportation, and social isolation) — A1005, A1010, A1110, A1250, B1300, D0700.

Note: OASIS-E data specs are in the “Downloads” section at http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives- Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/ DataSpecifications.