Home Health & Hospice Week
Plan Around OASIS Dead Zone This Month
Reminder: The state-based OASIS submission system is scheduled to shut down permanently at 6 p.m. on Dec. 26, 2014. Beginning at 12 a.m. midnight on Jan. 1, 2015, HHAs must begin to submit their OASIS assessments via the national ASAP system. With the implementation of the ASAP system, HHAs will no longer submit OASIS assessment data to CMS via their state databases.
Plan ahead for the dead time between 6 p.m. on Dec. 26 and Jan. 1. OASIS is required to be transmitted within 30 days of M0090 — Date assessment completed. For example, if 30 days falls on Dec. 28, the agency will need to plan on readying the assessment for transmission and strive to transmit on or prior to Dec. 26 to be compliant, says OASIS expert and attorney Lisa Selman-Holman of Selman-Holman & Associates and CoDR — Coding Done Right in Denton, Texas.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Face-To-Face:
Medicare Adds 800,000 F2Fs A Year To HHAs' Workload
Watch out if you carry a heavy managed care patient load. How you currently handle [...] - Know Your Facts:
Feds Examine Subsequent SOC Episodes For F2F
Subsequent SOC episodes have different diagnosis about ¾ of the time, data reveal. The Centers [...] - Quality:
Get Ready For A 5-Star Rating System On HH Compare
CMS proposes 10 measures for inclusion in star calculation. Wondering why you should care about [...] - Quality:
Polish Up These 10 Measures Selected To Calculate Your Star Rating
Acute hospitalization is included. Medicare officials say they gave a lot of thought to which [...] - OASIS:
Say Hello To New Year, Goodbye To Flu Confusion On OASIS-C1
Reorganization takes the guesswork out of vaccine items. The flu vaccine OASIS questions have tripped [...] - OASIS:
Boost Your Quality Measures With Accurate Vaccine Info On OASIS-C1
Do you know the ropes of the new vaccine items? The flu vaccine items aren’t [...] - HIPAA:
Emergencies Don't Trump Your HIPAA Requirements, HHS Says
Ebola sparks new HIPAA guidance. Do you know your patients’ HIPAA privacy rights in emergency [...] - Referrals:
Help Physicians Obtain Chronic Care Management Payment With These 6 Requirements
Hopefully Medicare’s red tape won’t keep your physicians from claiming their chronic care management pay. [...] - OASIS:
Prepare Now For Summer OASIS Benchmark
Tap data already available to you. Baby, it’s cold outside — but the feds are [...] - Assessment:
Look For Silver Lining In Assessment Changes
IMPACT Act could pave the way for increased home care usage. Get ready for a [...] - Industry Notes:
OIG Highlights HHA, Hospice Fraud & Noncompliance In Semiannual Report
Fraudulent Texas physician gets the spotlight. Even though the physician narrative for face-to-face goes away [...] - Industry Notes:
Budget Bill Lacks Typical Bite For 2015
Home care providers can breathe a sigh of relief as Congress has approved a 2015 [...] - Industry Notes:
Plan Around OASIS Dead Zone This Month
Reminder: The state-based OASIS submission system is scheduled to shut down permanently at 6 p.m. [...]
