Home Health & Hospice Week

Home health agencies have more free tools to put in their OASIS-E training toolbox.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service has issued “a short video tutorial to assist providers with coding GG0170C. Lying to Sitting on Side of Bed,” it says. “This 5-minute video is designed to provide targeted guidance using simulated patient scenarios,” according to a March 21 message to providers.

And “CMS is offering a set of cue cards to assist providers in conducting the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS), the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2 to 9), and the Pain Interview, as referenced in setting-specific guidance,” the agency says. “This resource is intended to be utilized as a supplemental patient communication tool that provides a visual reference for the coding of response options,” CMS explains.

Links to the cue cards and the GG0170C video are in the March 20 and March 21 entries at www.cms.gov/ medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/ homehealthqualityinits/home-health-quality-reporting-training.