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Prepare For OASIS-C Quality Measures To Go Public

Published on Tue May 10, 2011

Has your OASIS data under the new assessment form been accurate? Wondering what exactly is going into the new OASIS-C-based outcome measures that your referral sources, competitors and patients can view starting next month? Now you can check it out. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a report on the technical documentation of OASIS-C outcome, potentially avoidable event, and process measures on the Quality Measures section of its Quality Initiatives website. The report goes through the OASIS-C coding that comprises the measures. Home health agencies can get their OASISC measure preview reports this month, said CMS's Robin Dowell in the May 25 Open Door Forum for home care providers. Then next month HHAs can get their OASIS-C outcome reports in the CASPER system. Plus: Public display of the OASIS-C measures on Medicare's Home Health Compare website is also scheduled for next month. July 21 is the target [...]
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