Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
CMS Plans OASIS Vendor Call
Published on Fri Aug 05, 2022
OASIS vendors need to mark an important Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services session on their calendars. “CMS will host an OASIS technical informational call for Software Vendors and Developers on Thursday, August 25, 2022” from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET, it says. The call will go over a variety of OASIS-E topics as well as System and Validation Utility Tool (VUT) updates and Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) updates, CMS explains. It will also review “submitted” questions and answers. “CMS strongly recommends that all OASIS vendors attend this call,” the agency stresses. Interested parties can attend with Zoom: 1-833-568-8864 and Meeting ID: 161 024 8691.
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