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OASIS-D comprehensive training course now available

In OASIS, Online Training by Ken Bell5 Comments

We’re excited to offer a brand new comprehensive online training series for OASIS-D, ideal for new home health clinicians and coders. CEUs available 21 Nursing CE Hours 21 HCS-O CEU Hours 21 CEU Hours for Administrators & Alternate Administrators Course sections About this course Introduction Who, What, When Clinical Record Items Patient History & Diagnoses Living Arrangements Sensory Status Integumentary Respiratory …

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Navigating that OASIS C2 Denial

In OASIS by DeLaine SchwertnerLeave a Comment

As of April 1, 2017, Medicare began automatically denying claims with missing patient assessment data in the OASIS. Agencies are scratching their heads over the new denials. With some, they just plain messed up. The OASIS was not transmitted before the final claim for the episode was transmitted. With some, OASIS was submitted in time, but certain data was wrong …

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Don’t be stumped with amputation stumps

In OASIS by DeLaine SchwertnerLeave a Comment

Amputation coding seems to bring more confusion, and more potential gray areas, than most. There is the ongoing discussion about what code is correct for aftercare of surgery for amputation, and more recently, there has been a lot of discussion on what code works to indicate a complication of an amputation stump. The straight-up coding seems simple: The infected amputation …