tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 18

Home Care: OASIS Suspensions Add More Work For HHAs

Assessment time points added for some.The suspension of OASIS data collection for private pay patients is saving some home care providers time and resources, but those savings could change on the heels of a new Medicare memo regarding comprehensive assessments. The Medicare Modernization Act temporarily suspends the requirement to collect OASIS data on non-Medicare, non-Medicaid patients, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirms in an April 8 memorandum to surveyors (S&C-04-26). But the law "does not suspend any other aspects of the Comprehensive Assessment regulation," CMS insists.And that includes the timeframes for conducting...

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