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OASIS:

Turn To The Manual For OASIS C Compliance

Published on Tue Oct 06, 2009

Chapter 3 will be your survival guide. Listen up: There's a new acronym you'll need to learn if you hope to survive the transition to OASIS C -- and you won't find it in a glossary. In reply to participants' questions in a recent discussion of OASIS C, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' most frequent response was "RTM" -- read the manual -- and it's finally possible for you to do that. If you've been counting the days left before OASIS C takes effect, you'll be happy to see the document you need for the item-specific staff training. CMS posted the long-awaited OASIS C Guidance Manual to its Web site on Oct. 9. This is the most complete version, and your agency should be sure you are not using any prior version that may have been available unofficially, CMS says. HHAs Face The Biggest Change In 10 Years The Outcome and [...]
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