Home Health & Hospice Week

4 scenarios reveal your ability to choose the correct score for M1860. If you fail to get OASIS item M1860 right, you could be losing your rightful Medicare reimbursement -- and making your publicly reported outcomes worse. Problem: The OASIS tool makes tracking ambulation improvement a challenge by asking you to not only simplify one-hand versus two-hand devices, but to also address different surfaces and amounts of assistance needed, warns Carol Siebert with The Home Remedy in Chapel Hill, N.C. Use this guide to ensure you capture the right information at assessment so that your outcomes match all the hard work you put into caring for your patients. Look For The 3 Ws M1860 (Ambulation/Locomotion: Current ability to walk safely, once in a standing position, or use a wheelchair, once in a seated position, on a variety of surfaces) is a loaded item. Before you can accurately score your patient, you [...]