On again, off again, on again OASIS is back on track
For all those agencies that were holding off on collecting OASIS data while the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) worked on some privacy issues, it’s time to start collecting, encoding, and transmitting that data again.
The June 18 Federal Register states that Medicare/ Medicaid recipients of skilled nursing care had to begin providing OASIS data beginning July 19. That data was to be immediately encoded and transmitted not later than Aug. 24. Non-Medicare/ Medicaid patients getting skilled care will have to provide the data now, but encoding and transmission for them won’t happen until next spring. Those patients getting personal care services won’t only start participating until next spring, and those receiving chore services, pre- or post-partum care, and patients under 18 years of age are excluded from participation.
The relevant Federal Register document, on pp. 32,989-32,991, is titled "Medicare and Medicaid Programs, Mandatory Use, Collection, Encoding and Transmission of OASIS." You can get further information by looking at HCFA’s OASIS Web site, www.hcfa.gov/medicare/hsqb/oasis/ hhregs.htm.
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