OASIS:
Consider These 5 OASIS C Changes You'll Likely Need
Published on Tue Oct 13, 2009
Be sure your policies and procedures don’t handicap your clinicians. Your OASIS C job is already getting harder.Don’t rely only on the OASIS C Guidance Manual the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released Oct. 9. Questions and answers clarifying parts of Chapter 3 of the guidance are available for download and some of the Q&As already contradict Chapter 3. Plan a strategy to stay up to date on OASIS C requirements even after you download the currently available information, said physical therapist and OASIS expert Linda Krulish, president of the OASIS Certificate & Competency Board, speaking at its annual conference in Baltimore on Nov. 10. Don’t expect OASIS C to stay the same, Krulish told attendees. There will be more information coming out before Jan. 1, 2010 and even more after OASIS C implementation. Include New Concepts In Training As agencies make plans to begin using the OASIS C [...]