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Don't Let OASIS C Play Foul With Your Payments

Published on Sat Sep 05, 2009

Expect heavy surveyor scrutiny of new assessments and interventions. If you're chomping at the bit to roll out your final OASIS C training program, you don't have much longer to wait. Home health agencies at long last have a final OASIS C form to examine, but they still need to hold off on training staff, advises consultant Lynda Laff with Laff Associates in Hilton Head, S.C. That's because they'll need the item-by-item guidance in the OASIS User's Manual to complete the training. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to issue that guidance soon, it said in the most recent home health Open Door Forum. Get ready: But if you haven't done so already, now's the time to jump into preparation for the process items in the new OASIS C form, Laff urges. Many agencies are focusing on the mechanics of filling out the new assessment form and may [...]
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