Home Health & Hospice Week

Are you prepared to answer questions on patients’ social isolation, health literacy, and more?

Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services declined to give home health agencies a break with a SPADE phase-in, HHAs can expect to start completing these 22 standardized patient assessment data element items, along with many sub-elements, in January 2021 — and training OASIS staff weeks, and even months, before that date.

• Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) — OASIS items C0100, C0200, C0300, C0400, C0500.
• Assessment of Cognitive Function (CAM) — C1310 A-D.
• Patient Health Questionnaire–2 to 9 (PHQ–2 to 9) — C0150 A-H, C0160.
• Cancer Treatments — O0110 A-J, O (each lettered section with multiple sub-elements).
• Nutritional Approaches — K0520 A-D.
• High-Risk Drug Classes — N0415 A, E-F, H-J.
• Medical Conditions and Comorbidities — J0510, J0520, J0530.
• Impairments — B0200, B1000.
• Social Determinants of Health (race, ethnicity, preferred language, interpreter services, health literacy, transportation, and social isolation) — A1005, A1010, A1110, A1250, B1300, D0700.

Note: See the draft OASIS items in a change table at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HomeHealthQualityInits/Downloads/Change-Table-for-Proposed-HH-QRP-Items-Effective-January-1-2021.pdf.