tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 9

Home Health: CMS ISSUES OASIS SURVEY MARCHING ORDERS

Starting in May, home health agencies won’t have to wonder if a friendly surveyor will show up on their doorstep armed with incriminating evidence from their OASIS-based reports — they know she will. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided training to surveyors last fall on how to include in the survey process information from OASIS-based reports — adverse event, outcome- based quality improvement, case mix, submission statistics and error summary reports. In the interim, many surveyors have used the reports to target their surveys — but many haven’t. Now CMS says in a Feb. 13...

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