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Avoid This Mistake Nearly 7,000 Agencies Are Making

Published on Tue Aug 03, 2010

CAHPS, OASIS manuals, PECOS, ABNs also addressed in forum. Registering only one user to submit your OASIS data and view reports online is a big mistake, yet more than 6,900 home health agencies are currently making it. Better: You should register one primary user and one backup user so you aren't reliant on a single person for submitting and viewing information, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Aug. 25 Open Door Forum for home care providers. Then if your primary user leaves, your agency doesn't find itself unable to submit patients' OASIS assessments or view CASPAR reports, CMS's Pat Sevast said. That problematic scenario has happened to "numerous" agencies that have contacted the QIES help desk, she related. Each agency can have only two registered users -- but that's per site. So if you have three branches, you are allowed six registered users. And if you [...]
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