Home Health & Hospice Week
OASIS:
2018 Is The Last Year You Must Collect These OASIS Data Items
Published on Fri Nov 17, 2017
Data Items Caution: Some items will be only partially gone. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized changes to 33 OASIS items that would result in the collection of 235 fewer data elements at specific time points within a home health episode: M0903 M1011 * Responses for M2102 and M2310 still collected at certain time points.
M1017 M1018
M1025 M1034
M1036 M1210
M1220 M1230
M1240 M1300
M1302 M1320
M1322 M1332
M1350 M1410
M1501 M1511
M1610 M1615
M1750 M1880
M1890 M1900
M2030 M2040
M2102* M2110
M2250 M2310*
M2430
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