Home Health & Hospice Week

These M0 items can help beef up clinical records in case of medical review. Your therapy visits are on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' radar, so demonstrating the medical necessity of these services is more important than ever. Therapists who make the effort up front to learn how to mesh their documentation with key OASIS data items will save time and help prevent lost reimbursement. Therapists should use OASIS concepts in their documentation, advises physical therapist Cin-dy Krafft with Fazzi Associates in Peoria, Ill. Doc-umenting things like when the patient is experiencing pain interfering with activities (M1242) or when he is dyspneic (M1400) will help support the need for skilled care. Yet often therapy documentation lacks this connection, Krafft says. Don't Fear the OASIS Fear and avoidance of the OASIS can lead to compartmentalization where the different disciplines look only at their individual piece of caring for the [...]