tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 6

Some HHAs Won't Be Penalized For OASIS Suspension

Other home care topics covered in CMS' home care forum include:   OASIS suspension. CMS confirmed that the language in its Dec. 11 letter to state surveyors should protect HHAs that were threatened with deficiencies after they discontinued OASIS data collection for private-pay patients based on CMS Administrator Tom Scully's instruction to do so in the Nov. 5 Open Door Forum. Besides making the OASIS suspension for non-Medicare, non-Medicaid patients effective Dec. 8, the letter also told surveyors to suspend any pending findings against agencies over the matter. Agencies that are having trouble with their surveyors over the...

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