tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 36

Home Care: HHAs Win Relief From Deluge Of Medicaid Forms

No need to reassess all Medicaid patients in 5-day window, CMS says.Home health agencies have been laboring to update all of their Medicaid patients' assessments in the last five days of their 60-day episodes, but they just got some good news.Now any patients who are exempt from OASIS are also exempt from the five-day window requirement for the update to their comprehensive assessments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services clarifies in a Sept. 9 letter to surveyors (S&C-04-45).Home health agencies do not have to wait until the 55th to 60th day "to perform another...

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