NEWS BRIEF
HCFA delays OASIS again
The latest word from the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) on OASIS data collection, encoding, and transmission came down from the organization in late April. According to a release from the HCFA Web site, www.hcfa.gov, until there is some "clearance" under the Paperwork Reduction Act, agencies don’t have to use OASIS.
Once those clearances are obtained, HCFA will issue a notice on its Web site, and publish the same notification in the Federal Register. "In the meantime, we are not requiring [agencies] to use the OASIS instrument. HHAs that were not meeting the requirements on or after the Feb. 24 effective date will not be held out of compliance."
For those agencies that were notified that encoding OASIS data was a condition of participation beginning on March 26, with transmission slated to start a month later, that has also been suspended. The HCFA notice says that not only does the organization need to get clearances under the Paperwork Reduction Act, but will also need to prepare and an individual Privacy Act notice for patients, and publish a Privacy Act notice of the existence and character of the OASIS system of records.
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