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Published on Tue Mar 23, 2010

• Don't worry that surveyors will be using your OASIS C data to target survey activities any time soon. Surveyors won't get new survey instructions based on OASIS C until outcome-based quality improvement (OBQI) reports based on OASIS C are available, noted CMS's Pat Sevast at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's March on Washington meeting this month. Right now OBQI reports are suspended during the transition to OASIS C. Process measurebased reports will be available in September and outcome-based reports will be available again in May 2011, reported CMS's Robin Dowell. Surveyors will pull your most recent OASIS B-1-based reports for surveys, Sevast explained. The last B-1 reports came out April 15.
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