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Authors, Contributors Needed!
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about these great opportunities. We are looking for an author to write our 2011 book on Reducing Rehospitalizations in Home Care. This book will assist home care leaders and staff in assessing and treating patients to reduce [...]
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How to Use OASIS-C Data to Improve Quality
Wed, Aug 25, 2010
OASIS-C has been implemented for more than eight months, and homecare clinicians are still adjusting to the changes and focusing on its proper completion. As clinicians continue to develop a stronger understanding of how to complete the data set, it is important for homecare agencies to educate themselves on how to use the data that [...]
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CMS Releases OASIS-C Guidance Manual Errata
Wed, Jul 14, 2010
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted an errata sheet that lists revisions to the OASIS-C Guidance Manual since December 2009. Find the document here.
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CMS Conversion to Personal Logins Under Way
Tue, May 11, 2010
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is in the process of implementing a new way to log in to the OASIS Submission System and CASPER Reports. In the past, the login used has always been a shared login, but now agency users will be required to register for personal login IDs. The shared agency [...]
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Login Changes to OASIS-C Submission System Start Today
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
What do Illinois, Iowa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands all have in common? You may not think much, but starting today their home health agencies no longer have shared logins. Today is the first day of the implementation of the new login system for the OASIS Submission System and CASPER Reporting. The switch from [...]
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CMS Open Door Forum
Wed, Jan 20, 2010
CMS will hold a Home Health, Hospice and DME Open Door Forum today at 2:00pm (ET). There is no set agenda, but OASIS-C will likely be one of the topics discussed. Not available this afternoon? That’s ok! There will be an encore, an audio recording of the call, which will begin two hours after the [...]
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