tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 19

OASIS: SENATOR OPPOSES OASIS SUSPENSION FOR PRIVATE PAY

Home health agencies will continue to collect Outcome Assessment and Information Set data on their private-pay patients if a powerful senator gets his way. In a May 1 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) urged the HHS chief to back down on a proposal to eliminate the OASIS requirement for private pay patients. HHAs currently have to collect OASIS data on such patients, but they don't transmit it - making the process an apparently needless paperwork burden for agencies with many private-pay patients. Grassley, who is chair of the Senate Finance Committee...

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