tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 33

OASIS: Manual Revisions--And Now Corrections To Revisions--Warrant Your Close Attention

Rapid-fire changes to manual keep agencies hopping.If you think you're up on the latest in OASIS coding, think again.After posting its June revision to the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) Manual last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that, in at least two cases, it needs to clarify and correct its new directives.And more corrections may be forthcoming, warns Lisa Selman-Holman, principal of Selman-Holman & Associates in Denton, TX.Basics: CMS posted changes to the OASIS Users Manual last week (chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 11)...

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