Home Health Pocket Guide to OASIS-C1: A Reference for Field Staff Melinda A. Gaboury, COS-C 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

Help your home health agency maintain regulatory compliance by implementing the OASIS data set transitions with convenience and ease using the Home Health Guide to OASIS-C2: A Reference for Field Staff. This updated book supplies homecare providers with the latest information they need to know about the revised OASIS-C2 data set implementation requirements for January 2017. Designed to enable field staff to bring along and complete the OASIS-C2 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-C2 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 October 2016

Pocket Guide for the Home Care Aide is the perfect everyday reference when working with patients in their homes. It serves as a resource to address the unique needs of the home care aide as an integral part of the home care organization. The pocket guide provides an overview of the essential elements of orientation for the home health aide, as well as self analysis and development tools. It provides procedures for basic home health aide skills and gives information about the most common home health diagnoses.

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