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Help your home health agency maintain regulatory compliance by implementing the OASIS data set transitions with convenience and ease using the Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C1: A Reference for Field Staff. This updated book supplies homecare providers with the latest information they need to know about the revised OASIS-C1 data set implementation requirements for January and October 2015. Designed to enable field staff to bring along and complete the OASIS-C1 assessments at a patient's bedside, the book provides helpful guidance for each assessment type and M item change to ensure documentation standards are upheld and proper reimbursement is obtained for every patient.

This handy pocket guide provides:

- Convenient access to OASIS guidance; use this travel-sized pocket guide while filling out the assessment at the bedside
- Plain English guidance with step-by-step instructions for filling out each OASIS-C1 item to help staff easily improve their OASIS documentation
- An explanation of how OASIS items fit into various assessments
- A breakdown of how the data collection affects reimbursement
- Troubleshooting tips to avert incorrect payment, denials, and fines
- Compliance at any time our pocket guide offers information about the revised implementation requirements for January and October 2015

Table of Contents:

Section 1: OASIS-C1 Overview: Summary of eliminated, modified, and new data elements

Section 2: What's New: Two-Step Implementation Method to Compliment ICD-10

Section 3: The Comprehensive Assessment and OASIS-C1

Section 4: Reimbursement Effect of OASIS-C1

Section 5: OASIS-C1 and Outcomes

Section 6: Patient Tracking Sheet

Section 7: Start of Care and Resumption of Care Assessments

Section 8: Follow-Up and Other Follow-Up Assessments

Section 9: Transfer and Discharge Assessments

Section 10: Step by Step: General instructions for completion of the OASIS-C