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BLAZE A TRAIL THROUGH THE INFORMATION BLIZZARD

Sick and tired of spending hours online hunting down information about OASIS? Here are the essential Internet addresses for finding those elusive OASIS answers:

  • CMS publications (manuals, forms and consumer publications): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/publications/

  • CMS quarterly regulatory update for home health providers: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providerupdate/hha.asp

  • Federal Register Online: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html

  • Provider Reimbursement Review Board appeals information: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/prrb/prrb.asp

  • Open Door Forums for home health: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/opendoor/homehealth-hospice.asp

  • Home Health Quality Initiative (Home Health Compare overview, QIO and surveyor info): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/hhqi/

  • Instructions for accessing OBQI and OBQM reports: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/222hhagd.pdf

  • Clearinghouse for OBQI information from quality improvement organizations: http://www.obqi.org/

  • Quality improvement contacts in every state: http://www.ahqa.org

  • OASIS regulations: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/hhregs.asp

  • OASIS-B1 data set (effective 12/2002): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/oasisdat.asp

  • HAVEN software (fixes, updates, technical support info): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/havensof.asp

  • OASIS data submission specifications version 1.30: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/datasubm.asp

  • OASIS user manual (including data submission system guide and HAVEN reference manual): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/usermanu.asp

  • OASIS and OBQI background information, including explanation of risk adjustment: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/hha/default.asp

  • OASIS Education Coordinators (phone numbers and e-mail): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/hhoec.pdf

  • OASIS Automation Coordinators (for help with technical issues): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/hhoac.pdf

  • PPS and OASIS (including link to Excel spreadsheet for determining recertification dates): http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/oasispps.asp

  • OASIS questions and answers (more than 250): http://questions.cms.hhs.gov/cgi-bin/cmshhs.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_cat_lvl1=3&p_cat_lvl2=33

  • CMS guidance to state surveyors: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicaid/ltcsp/ltcmemos.asp

  • Official guidelines for coding: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd9/icdguide.pdf

     

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