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Improve OASIS Accuracy -- And Your Rightful Reimbursement -- With 13 OASIS Basics

Published on Wed Nov 16, 2011

Watch out for these pitfalls. Is your OASIS assessment process costing your agency payment you deserve? Understanding each OASIS item is important for accurate reporting, but establishing a consistent process overall can also positively impact on your bottom line. Try this refresher on the ABCs of OASIS assessment and see immediate improvement. The way you approach each OASIS assessment can determine how accurately you report each patient's condition. The following six techniques will help you capture the allowed case mix points your patient deserves for each episode, says certified OASIS expert Judy Adams with Adams Home Care Consulting in Chapel Hill, N.C. 1. Reverse your thinking. Read the responses for each OASIS item from bottom to top to select the most accurate score for each item, Adams says. Reading from the bottom shows you the most impaired responses first. Follow this one tip alone and you'll see improved case mix [...]
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