Education:
After November, M0150 Accuracy MAy Matter More
Q: On M0150 (current payment sources for home care), should you mark box "1" if Medicare is only the secondary payor? A: Yes. M0150 identifies all sources of payment for the current episode, not just primary sources, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services instructed in questions and answers from the 2003 OASIS Educators Conference. "The only consideration is whether the services are being provided by the same agency," CMS says. This can be especially important to realize if your agency decides to stop collecting OASIS information on private pay patients, since you still will need to collect it where Medicare is a secondary payor.
