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Home health aides: Their role in OASIS-C best practices

Of all staff members, the home health aide may have the most time and intimate contact with the patients home health agencies serve. It is the home health aide’s observation and reporting of symptoms that often allows the earliest detection of changes in the patient’s health status. Because of this, home health aides play a [...]

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Standardization is key

A best practice standardizes the approach to care delivery for particular situations. This standardization is important for two reasons. One, it reduces the possibility that a staff member will make an error or forget to do something important. Two, it allows an agency to know about and control the care provided to certain patients. There [...]

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Outcome and Process Measure Reporting Answers

Here are the answers from yesterday’s outcome and process measure reporting quiz! a. True. Home Health Compare (HHC) will report only on short-term episodes for best practice process measures. If an agency implements a best practice in the first episode and the patient is recertified, M2400, intervention synopsis, will never capture implementation. b. False. The [...]

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Outcome and Process Measure Reporting Questions

Test your knowledge about OASIS-C outcome and process measure reporting. Identify whether each statement is true or false. a. Home Health Compare will not report every best practice an agency implements. b. The “physician-ordered plan of care” for M2250, plan of care synopsis, and M2400, intervention synopsis, refers only to the document, commonly known as [...]

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Best Practice vs. Covered service

As you review the OASIS-C data set questions encouraging agencies to implement EBP for diabetic foot care, you may find yourself asking a question. Will Medicare cover diabetic foot care performed by a nurse, assuming that all other Medicare coverage criteria are met? Many agencies have a policy mandating that a registered nurse perform foot [...]

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Facts about OASIS-C Process Measures Restore Common Sense

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the first version of the revised OASIS, Beacon Health feared the incorporation of process data elements would create problems. It looks as though our fears have come to fruition. The very presence of these questions is driving agencies to change processes, which, in too many [...]

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