Home Health & Hospice Week
Check Out Your OASIS-D Tool
Are you ready to collect these 2 newly added items at Follow-Up? Medicare may have spelled out its OASIS-D changes, effective in January 2020, in its 2019 HH PPS final rule. But now you can get a look at the actual assessment tool. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the OASIS-D forms on its OASIS Data Sets webpage. “Revised versions of the OASIS-D All Items instrument and the Follow-up (FU) time point instrument are available,” CMS says. “These versions are effective January 1, 2020. The original OASIS-D versions for all other time points remain in effect as of January 1, 2020.” Important: “Two existing items are added to the Follow-Up time point for data collection” under OASIS-D1, consulting firm Fazzi Associates reminds providers on its website. They are M1033 (Risk for Hospitalization) and M1800 (Grooming). (For other OASIS-D changes, including the 19 items becoming optional at followup, see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVIII, No. 13). A link to the OASIS-D forms is at www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/homehealthqualityinits/oasis-data-sets.html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Reimbursement:
Beware: New HHA Cost Report May Give Rise To Rebasing
New hourly wage calculation will prove crucial to future rate reductions, expert predicts. A new [...] - Hospice:
CMS Pulls The Trigger On Hospice Payment Level Rebalancing
So-called ‘budget-neutral’ rebalancing will really mean a cut to hospice pay. After years of criticizing [...] - Finance:
Here's Why Hospice Cost Reports Matter
HHAs, pay attention. While Medicare’s proposal to rebalance hospice payment between care levels isn’t exactly [...] - Regulations:
Hospice Proposed Rule To Add Major Election Burden
Plus: Regulation also addresses wage index, HQRP, and alternative care models. Hospices will have to [...] - Industry Note:
Check Out Your OASIS-D Tool
Are you ready to collect these 2 newly added items at Follow-Up? Medicare may have [...] - Industry Note:
Personal Care Services Come Under The Microscope
Medicaid home care services have been on the HHS Office of Inspector General’s hit list [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Board Of Trustees Gauges Cost Growth
Don’t be surprised to see Medicare officials trying to tighten budget belts even further. In [...] - Industry Note:
Medicare Makes Changes To LCD Process
You may be hearing more about Local Coverage Decisions from your Medicare Administrative Contractor. As [...] - Industry Note:
Yet More RHC Payment Errors Revealed
Many hospices are not surprised to see a recent Medicare message about Routine Home Care [...] - Industry Note:
ERS Procedures Undergo Overhaul
If you find yourself in a bind and needing an Extended Repayment Schedule from Medicare, [...] - Industry Note:
Broken Equipment Nets You A Fall For J1800
A new quarter has brought a new set of OASIS questions and answers from Medicare. [...] - Industry Note:
California Equity Firm Makes HH Investment
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm, has made an undisclosed “investment” in home health [...] - Industry Note:
Doc Gets 3 Years In Prison For Hospice Fraud
A former physician hospice owner and his business partner have been sentenced to nearly three [...] - Industry Note:
Michigan HHA Owner Draws Lengthy Sentence
A former Michigan home health agency owner has been sentenced to seven years in federal [...]
