Author Archives | Casey Ramsdell
Casey Ramsdell has written 122 posts on OASIS-Central.
Casey is an associate editor at Beacon Health, the homecare division of HCPro,Inc. She serves as the editor of Beacon Health's newsletter for administrators Homecare Administrator, contributes to Beacon's print and electronic publications, moderates audio conferences, and manages OASIS-Central. Casey has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston.
November ODF Features OASIS-C Guidance
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held an open door forum (ODF) for home health care, hospice, and durable medical equipment (DME) on Wednesday, Nov. 2. When discussing the face-to-face physician encounter requirement, CMS stated that it is a statutory requirement. Because it is law, only Congress can change the law and CMS [...]
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CMS Releases Home Health Final Rule
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its annual Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Final Rule last week on October 31, which will update the HH PPS rates for 2012. According to CMS, payments to home health agencies are estimated to decrease by approximately 2.31 percent. This decrease in payment that [...]
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Open Door Forum Makes OASIS-C Announcements
Fri, Oct 7, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held an open door forum (ODF) for homecare, hospice, and durable medical equipment (DME) on Wednesday, September 28. The following are some OASIS-C highlights that may be of interest to homecare providers. HAVEN/OASIS grouper update The updated versions of HAVEN and the OASIS grouper are now available [...]
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Preparing for implementation: Who should agencies and facilities educate about ICD-10-CM/PCS?
Thu, Aug 25, 2011
Given the many differences between the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS system and the thousands of new codes that will be used, all skilled-nursing facility (SNF) and homecare agency staff members involved in coding should begin preparing for implementation, if they haven’t already. But coders are not the only people who should be involved in training. So [...]
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Reminder: M1012 No Longer Required by CMS
Tue, Jul 26, 2011
OASIS-C data element M1012, “List each Inpatient Procedure and the associated ICD-9-CM procedure code relevant to the plan of care”, is no longer required by CMS for payment, quality measure development, or risk adjustment. An accurate response to this measure does not matter, but a response must be entered. Agency policy and private vendors may [...]
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Post-acute care: Have you created your ICD-10 implementation plan?
Mon, Jul 18, 2011
Editor’s note: When we launched OASIS-Central in late 2009, we set out to provide you with a continuous flow of relevant and timely information that would help you stay abreast of key changes, important updates and best practices all related to OASIS-C. Now there is another major change that the healthcare industry is bracing itself [...]
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