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Lu Post, RN, MN, COS-C, is president of Home Care Institute, LLC, a technology-based company with a focus on the development of home care and hospice educational resources. She is certified as a clinical OASIS Specialist from the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board, Inc. Lu earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Georgia State University and her master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist from Emory University in Atlanta. She has served in a variety of senior leadership and educational roles in some of the largest home care and hospice organizations in the country for over 20 years.
Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and the patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care?
Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and the patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care? A: Trips outside the home for outpatient therapy, since they are made to receive medical treatment that cannot be provided in the home, do not affect [...]
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Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care?
Thu, Jan 20, 2011
Q: If you admit a patient to home health services and patient is subsequently referred to outpatient therapy, can you continue any part of the plan of care? A: Trips outside the home for outpatient therapy, since they are made to receive medical treatment that cannot be provided in the home, do not affect the [...]
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Q: What is causing us to be reflected so poorly on our process measure reports in regard to something we have always done right?
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
Q: I accessed our quality measures report and found that we are only 22% effective on the timely initiation of care measure. All of our patients are admitted within 24 hours of referral or resumption of care. What is causing us to be reflected so poorly on something we have always done right? A: The [...]
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Q: If the patient is totally totally left alone, most of the answers in the functional item will be zero, especially transferring and ambulation. It seems to reflect that the patient is not homebound if I answer 0 in dressing upper, lower body, bathing, transferring and ambulation. Am I correct?
Wed, Dec 29, 2010
Q: It’s hard for me to answer the functional assessment item. If the patient is totally totally left alone, most of the answers in the functional item will be zero, especially transferring and ambulation. It seems to reflect that the patient is not homebound if I answer 0 in dressing upper, lower body, bathing, transferring [...]
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What assessments can be used for M1910?
Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Q: Is the Falls Risk Assessment in M1910 the only assessment we need to use to be able to answer “Yes” on M1910? If we need an additional assessment to answer “Yes”, what does CMS recommend for the RN to use to assess? A: OASIS-C does not provide a Falls Risk Assessment associated with M1910, [...]
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Can we add the items in M2250 to our referral and then the physician can give us additional orders at time of referral?
Mon, Nov 29, 2010
Q: My position consists of auditing, coding, and teaching new employees about OASIS-C. I recently met with one of our committees and their concern is regarding M2250. We know that physicians can be difficult to reach to get orders in order to answer “Yes” to M2250 items. Can we add the items in M2250 to [...]
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