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What is the time frame for including interventions?

Q: I believe that when answering M2400, the clinician only looks at interventions since the last OASIS. This  includes the recertification OASIS. We have many long-term stable patients under Medicaid that we are seeing monthly or sometimes more often (e.g., med prefills). In these cases, many of the interventions were done months or even years [...]

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Putting Best Practices into Action

When OASIS was created, its purpose was to measure and manage patient outcomes. With the implementation of OASIS-C, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will now be measuring an agency’s use of evidence-based practice (EBP). CMS believes that including EBP, which, based on current research, have been known to prevent exacerbation of serious [...]

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