Regulations:
Make The Manual Your OASIS C Implementation Bible
Published on Wed Nov 18, 2009
Give each clinician a copy of Chapter 3 if you want to survive the transition. If you've been working hard to bring your staff up to speed on OASIS C, you don't want to overlook one important step -- providing them with the source material for item-specific guidance. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted the long-awaited OASIS C Guidance Manual to its Web site back in October. The agency declined to delay OASIS C implementation despite industry concerns about the short time allowed for agency transition after CMS has been working on the project for four years. Home health agencies had enough notice; vendors had sufficient time to prepare; the data set has been available long enough; and CMS has provided sufficient training opportunities to allow for the transition as planned, CMS insisted. Background: In 1999, Medicare-certified home health agencies began collecting and submitting OASIS data on all adult [...]