Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C1: A Reference for Field Staff

Help your home health agency maintain regulatory compliance by implementing the OASIS data set transitions with convenience and ease using the Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C1: A Reference for Field Staff. This updated book supplies homecare providers with the latest information they need to know about the revised OASIS-C1 data set implementation requirements for January and October 2015. Designed to enable field staff to bring along and complete the OASIS-C1 assessments at a patient's bedside, the book provides helpful guidance for each assessment type and M item change to ensure documentation standards are upheld and proper reimbursement is obtained for every patient.

This handy pocket guide provides:

- Convenient access to OASIS guidance; use this travel-sized pocket guide while filling out the assessment at the bedside
- Plain English guidance with step-by-step instructions for filling out each OASIS-C1 item to help staff easily improve their OASIS documentation
- An explanation of how OASIS items fit into various assessments
- A breakdown of how the data collection affects reimbursement
- Troubleshooting tips to avert incorrect payment, denials, and fines
- Compliance at any time our pocket guide offers information about the revised implementation requirements for January and October 2015

Table of Contents:

Section 1: OASIS-C1 Overview: Summary of eliminated, modified, and new data elements

Section 2: What's New: Two-Step Implementation Method to Compliment ICD-10

Section 3: The Comprehensive Assessment and OASIS-C1

Section 4: Reimbursement Effect of OASIS-C1

Section 5: OASIS-C1 and Outcomes

Section 6: Patient Tracking Sheet

Section 7: Start of Care and Resumption of Care Assessments

Section 8: Follow-Up and Other Follow-Up Assessments

Section 9: Transfer and Discharge Assessments

Section 10: Step by Step: General instructions for completion of the OASIS-C