OASIS Alert

Clip'N' Save:

Audit your ACUTE CARE HOSPITALIZATION CHARTS WITH THIS TOOL

Published on Sat Jan 21, 2006

Jumpstart your work on this hard-to-change measure.

Quality Improvement Organizations are asking you to reduce acute care hospitalizations, and pay for performance will make your outcomes more important than ever.

Agencies looking for a tool to help in their focused clinical record review for improving this outcome (see OASIS Alert, Vol. 5, No. 12 and Vol. 6, No. 1) can get a helping hand from the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care.

Use these audit questions during the investigation and/or the monitoring phase of your outcome-based quality improvement efforts.

OASIS Alert

Regulations:
Final OASIS Reg May Save Your Sanity
Temporary data-collection suspensions for certain patients still apply. If you've been struggling to lock OASIS [...]

Survey & Certification:
4 Ways To Prepare For Lock-Free Data Transmission
You might want to keep this a secret from your clinicians. Now that you won't [...]

Test Your OASIS Savvy ...Education:
Cane May Not Relieve Pain
Question: How do you answer M0420 (Frequency of pain interfering with patient's activity or movement) [...]

OBQI:
OBQI Training Just Got Easier
Entice staff with CEUs. You don't have to convince your staff to slog through page [...]

Diagnosis Coding:
Use New V Code Rule To Trigger More Accurate V57.1 Coding
Improve risk-adjustment in the bargain. Diagnosis code V57.1 (Other physical therapy)--the number one primary diagnosis [...]

Reimbursement:
Believing Your RHHI's Answers May Cost You
If you're following the original version of regional home health intermediary Associated Hospital Service's recently [...]

Case Study:
5 Costly OASIS Problems And How To Address Them
Clinicians can change your agency's future. Do your clinicians know what a LUPA, a SCIC [...]

Clip'N' Save:
Audit your ACUTE CARE HOSPITALIZATION CHARTS WITH THIS TOOL

Jumpstart your work on this hard-to-change measure. Quality Improvement Organizations are asking you to reduce [...]

Reader Question:
CMS Web Site Redesign Stumps Providers
Question: Many times lately when I try to go to an OASIS link on the [...]

OASIS News:
Study Explains M0 Mistakes
With pay for performance on the horizon, a new study highlights problems with OASIS validity [...]

View All