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Don't Let OASIS C Play Foul With Your Payments

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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