OASIS Alert
Test Your OASIS Q&A Knowledge
Can a pharmacist provide drug education intervention? Get ready: The July 2011 Quarterly OASIS Q&As from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid and the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board are just around the corner. Are you sure you're up to speed on the April guidance? Give your knowledge a workout with this Q&A quiz. Question 1: You admit a patient for service, with the understanding that the face-to-face (F2F) visit will take place on day 25. You complete the start of care (SOC) comprehensive assessment; send the OASIS to the state and it is accepted. By day 30 after the SOC, the patient hasn't had his F2F with the physician and he is discharged because the coverage criteria wasn't met. What should you do with the OASIS submitted to the state? And do you need to complete another OASIS at discharge? Question 2: What's the correct way to answer M1342 (Status of Most Problematic [Observable] Surgical Wound) when the surgery took place less than 30 days ago? Question 3: Can I mark M1510 (Heart Failure Followup) with response 1 -- Patient's physician contacted the same day if the physician calls the patient back rather than our agency? We identified the symptoms and left a message with the physician's office staff on the same day, but later that day the physician called the patient back with instructions regarding the heart failure symptoms, rather than calling our agency. Question 4: If there are no orders on the referral for psych nursing services, but the skilled nurse identifies a psych issue on her initial assessment and plans to obtain physician's orders for the agency's Mental Health Nurse, can she answer M1750 -- Is this patient receiving Psychiatric Nursing Services at home provided by a qualified psychiatric nurse? "Yes" Can she answer "Yes" even if the visit by the Mental Health Nurse will not be completed in the 5 day assessment window? Question 5: When answering M2015 -- Patient/Caregiver Drug Education Intervention, does a pharmacist qualify as an "other healthcare provider?" Turn to page 94 for the answers to this OASIS Q&A quiz.
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M1324: Take 3 Steps to Stage Most Problematic Pressure Ulcer
Hint: You'll list NA in only three circumstances. Accurately staging your patient's most challenging pressure [...] - Get CMS' Answers to Your Pressure Ulcer Questions
There always seem to be situations that aren't easily reported in M1324. Through the quarterly [...] - Train and Verify to Ace Pressure Ulcer Stages
If you don't develop a tool for pressure ulcer staging and verify that all staff [...] - Assessment:
Skin Assessment or Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessments -- Do You Know the Difference?
You won't gather the most accurate information when you do risk assessments at SOC. Conducting [...] - 3 Tips Guide Your Way to Better Pressure Ulcer Risk and Skin Assessment
Documenting your patient's skin status helps paint an accurate picture of the care your agency [...] - Tool:
Try These Interventions for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Avoid massaging reddened bony prominences. If the pressure ulcer risk assessment you've conducted indicates a [...] - Quiz:
Test Your OASIS Q&A Knowledge
Can a pharmacist provide drug education intervention? Get ready: The July 2011 Quarterly OASIS Q&As [...] - ICD-9:
Advice Clears Up Your Pressure Ulcer Coding Confusion
Hint: Always code stage 3 and 4 pressure ulcers. Coding correctly for pressure ulcers in [...] - Get the Answers to our OASIS Q&A Quiz
Do you have your answers to the quiz on page 92 ready? Read on to [...] - Clip and Save:
Manage OASIS-C, Diagnosis Coding Pressure Ulcer Conflicts
Do you know when a grafted pressure ulcer becomes a surgical wound? OASIS-C logic and [...] - ICD-10:
Welcome Laterality and All-Inclusive Stage and Site Pressure Ulcer Codes in ICD-10
More codes don't make pressure ulcer coding more complicated. In ICD-9, to code for a [...] - Industry Notes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to cut home health agency prospective payment [...]
