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- New OASIS-D items take center stage in January release of CMS quarterly Q&As
With a month of OASIS-D under their belts, many agencies are struggling with accuracy and productivity challenges associated with the assessment. But recently released CMS quarterly OASIS Q&As may help eliminate some confusion.
- Reducing hospitalization rates will be a key goal for many agencies in 2019
More agencies plan to focus on improving the rate of acute care hospitalizations than any other quality of care star ratings measure in 2019.
- For PDGM, agencies will need to change how they handle case conferencing
Case conferences will take on increased importance when the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) launches on or after Jan. 1, 2020.
- Quality of care star rating measure(s) agencies will work to improve in 2019
About 70% of agencies will work to improve performance on acute care hospitalization in 2019.
- Reduced rural add-on payments cause agencies to create efficiencies
Rural add-on payments have changed significantly for many agencies this year, with some providers receiving more money than before and others receiving far less.
- CMS provides updates about OASIS-D, PDGM, hospice billing
Use CMS’ new GG self-care and mobility activity decision tree to determine appropriate responses for those items when filling out OASIS-D.
