OASIS:
OASIS C Is Ready To Roll -- Are You?
Published on Wed Nov 11, 2009
Look for changes to OASIS login, HH ABN in new year, CMS says in Open Door Forum. In a few short weeks, your OASIS C rubber will be hitting the road. Home health agencies secretly wishing for a Christmas miracle of delayed OASIS C implementation will be disappointed. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is moving ahead with Jan. 1 implementation for OASIS C as planned, CMS's Debbie Terkay said in the Dec. 2 Open Door Forum for home care providers. HHA clinicians will encounter a number of confusing OASIS C obstacles, which may not be helped by the guidance issued by CMS itself. The agency will post some changes to the OASIS Manual guidance, a CMS official said in the call. But there is "no change whatsoever to the instrument data set" itself, she stressed. CMS has already issued a corrected form of its OASIS C grouper, noted [...]
