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CMS has released new document.

The first step to preparing for your new OASIS tool is to check out the new form taking effect in January 2019.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the form at www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRA-Listing-Items/CMS-10545.html.

"This OASIS version reflects the removal of 75 data elements from the OASIS at the time point SOC, 75 data elements at the time point ROC, 20 data elements at the time point FU, 42 data elements at the time point TOC, 1 data element at the time point DAH, and 34 data elements at the time point DC, relative to the previous version," CMS says in its Paperwork Reduction Act materials. "As a net result of the policies finalized in the CY 2018 final rule, we also added data elements to meet the requirements of the IMPACT Act. Consequently, the net items removed include 38 data elements at SOC, 38 data elements at ROC, 2 data elements at FU, 38 data elements at TOC and 9 data elements at Discharge."