OASIS:
Avoid Dashes With This OASIS Coding Tip
Published on Fri Jan 11, 2019
Clear up early days confusion between dashes and Code 8. Medicare makes clear in the OASIS-D Guidance Manual, OASIS-D training, and elsewhere that home health clinicians should use dashes as little as possible when completing the newly revised assessment instrument. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “expects the use of a dash to be a rare occurrence,” the agency reiterates [...]