This home health proposed rule’s 346 pages (reduced from last year’s 600) were published on July 18. Comments will be accepted from now until September 9, 2019. You can submit your comment by clicking on the “Submit a formal comment” link near the top of the article. You can also send your comments by regular […]

The Social Security Act’s section 1899B(b)(1)(B)(i) requires that post-acute care (PAC) providers submit standardized patient data for “Functional status, such as mobility and self care at admission to a PAC provider and before discharge from a PAC provider”. CMS tasked RTI to review existing PAC assessments, create the Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) Item […]

In July, we wrote about the 2019 Home Health Proposed Rule. The final rule for 2019 was published November 1, 2018. There were some changes in response to comments received so we’ll go over the highlights here. Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) Updates The good news is that CMS is projecting a 2.2 […]

When it comes to home health regulations, CMS has been busy little beavers lately. In addition to publishing the proposed 2019 Home Health Proposed Rule, on July 2, 2018 CMS published the draft OASIS-D Guidance Manual found at the bottom of the OASIS User Manuals page. We compared the OASIS-C2 Guidance Manual with the OASIS-D […]

This year’s home health proposed rule was jam packed with regulatory goodness. This 600-page document, though not officially published until July 12, 2018, is available for review by the public now. Comments will be accepted from now until August 31, 2018. You can submit your comment electronically (enter CMS-1689-P into the search box and click […]

On March 12, 2018, the Federal Register posted a Comment Requestthat included changing the OASIS data set. This is the next step in the process of updating to OASIS-D which CMS has scheduled for implementation on January 1, 2019. What will be different? Quite a bit, it seems. You can find the data elements finalized […]

OASIS-C2 becomes effective for (M0090) Date Assessment Completed dates on or after January 1, 2017. I am here to tell you about the upcoming changes which, at a higher level, aim to more closely align the Home Health OASIS data set to other post-acute care standardized assessment data sets. So what’s new? There are actually […]

Attention all agencies! Urgent news regarding OASIS transmissions! CMS is converting to the Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) System at the end of the year, which will change submission from state databases directly to the federal database. There will be a system shut down from 6:00 PM (ET) on December 26, 2014 through 11:59 PM […]

2015 is shaping up to be a big year for home health regulatory changes. The latest change is in the OASIS data set. CMS has been gearing up for the ICD-10 conversion for some time now and had updated the OASIS document to allow for ICD-10 codes and took the opportunity to clarify some of […]