OASIS-Central

Now that OASIS-C has been implemented, one of the biggest questions home health professionals have is how and when outcomes will be publicly reported. Here are some facts about public reporting and OASIS-C.  Stay tuned for a more detailed list of all publicly reported measures next week.

1. Process Measure Outcomes

• Care process measures include timeliness, assessment, education, POC and implementation, and prevention
• Outcome-based Quality Improvement reports will include all process measures
• HHC will publicly report 13 measures
• Process measures reporting is scheduled to be provide at the end of 2010 for data collected in the first six months of 2010

2. Outcomes Measure: Potentially Avoidable

• Potentially avoidable events were previously called adverse events and are believed to be preventable events if an appropriate effective plan of care is implemented
• HHC will publicly report one event: Increase in unhealed pressure ulcers

3. Outcomes Measure: Utilization

• Utilization outcomes measure a change in the patient’s health status
• HHC will report two outcomes: With or without hospitalization

4. Outcomes Measure: End Result

• End result outcomes show change in patient status between SOC or ROC and discharge expressed in improvement or stablization (ie., doesn’t worsen)
• HHC will publicly report seven outcomes
• Outcome measures reporting scheduled to be provided July 2011 for data collected for a full year starting April 2010

This information was adapted from Beacon Health’s audio conference series, OASIS-C Process Measures: Best Practice Strategies that Reduce Risk. The second  session was devoted to PPS Payment and Public Reporting and was presented by Laurie Salmons, RN, BSN.

For more information about the two remaining sessions which include  Falls, Footcare, Flu, and Heart Failure and Depression, Pain and High-risk Medications, click here.