OASIS-C
Clinical Record IssuesContact: Cindy Skogen, RN (OEC)
651-201-3818, [email protected] for questions.
Source: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Clinical Record Issues 1
M0080 Discipline of Person Completing Assessment
• 1-RN 2-PT 3-SLP/ST 4-OT• Only one individual completes the
comprehensive assessment:
- If more than one discipline involved in case
• Care consultation/coordination is needed
• But only one actually completes &records assessment
Clinical Record Issues 2
M0080 discipline of Person Completing Assessment (cont.)
• RN & PT/SLP ordered at initial referral, the RN must complete SOC comprehensive assessment
• LPN’s, PTAs, COTAs, MSWs, & HHAs not authorized to complete comp assessments
• Last qualified clinician to see patient at DC completes the DC assessment
Clinical Record Issues 3
M0090 Date Assessment Completed
• (M0090) Date Assessment Completed:
• _ _/_ _/ _ _ _ _
• Month/date/year
• Actual date the assessment is completed
• M0090 cannot be before the SOC date
• If agency policy allows assessments to be completed over more than one visit date –M0090 =the last date-when the final assessment data is collected
Clinical Record Issues 4
M0090 Date Assessment Completed (cont.)
• Record date data collection completed after learning of event:
• -Transfer to Inpatient Facility; no agency DC
-Transfer to Inpatient Facility: patient DC from agency
-Death at home
• A visit is not necessarily associated with these events
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M0100• (M0100) This assessment is Currently Being Completed for the Following
Reason:
Start/resumption of Care• 1-/start of care-further visits planned• 3-Resumption of Care (after inpatient stay)
Follow up• 4-Recertification (follow up) reassessment {Go to M0110}• 5-Other follow-up {Go to M0110}
Transfer to an Inpatient Facility• 6-Transferred to an inpatient facility-pt not DC from agency {Go to M1040}• 7-Transferred to an inpatient facility-pt DC from agency {Go to M1040}
Discharged from Agency-Not to an Inpatient facility• 8-Death at home {Go to M0903}• 9-DC from agency {Go to M1040}
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M0100 (cont.)
Start/resumption of care 1-Start of Care-further visits planned 3-Resumption of care (after inpatient stay)
Follow-Up 4-Recertification (follow-up) reassessment
[Go to M0110] 5-Other follow-up [Go to M0110]
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M0100 (cont.)
Transfer to Inpatient Facility• 6-Transferred to an inpatient facility-pt not
discharged from agency [Go to M1040]• 7-Transferred to an inpatient facility-pt d/c from
agency [Go to M1040]
Discharge from Agency-Not to an Inpatient Facility
8-Death at home [Go to M0903] 9-Discharged from agency [Go to M1040]
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M0100 (cont.)• Assessment/data collection time points
• Reason why the assessment data are being collected and reported
-reason for assessment (RFA)
• Data reporting software accepts or rejects certain data based pm the M0100 response
-Accuracy critical
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RFA 1: Start of Care
• Must be conducted during a home visit
• Comprehensive assessment completed when the POC established
-Whether or not further visit will be provided after the SOC visit
-Appropriate response anytime a HHRG is required
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RFA 3: ROC
• Must be conducted during a home visit
• Resumption of care (ROC) comprehensive assessment
• Performed when resuming care of patient
-following inpatient stay of 24 hrs. or longer
-for reasons other than diagnostic testing
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RFA 3: ROC (cont.)
• If resuming care during last 5 days of the episode following inpatient discharge
-Perform ROC not a Recertification (RFA 4)
Answer payment questions as if Recert
-This assessment establishes payment code for next 60-day episode
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RFA 4: Recertification• Must be conducted during a home visit
• Comprehensive assessment during last 5 days of the 60-day cert period
-Need to continue services for additional 60-day episode of care
• If HHA misses recert window
-Make a visit as soon as possible
-Explain in clinical documentation
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RFA 5: Other Follow-up• Must be conducted during a home visit• Comprehensive assessment due to a
major decline or improvement in health status
-At any time other than during the last 5 days
-HHA should have policy• Reevaluation of patient’s condition -Allowing revision of POC, as appropriate
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RFA 6: Transfer; No DC
• Data collection completed when:
-Admitted to inpatient facility bed for 24 hrs or more
-For reasons other than diagnostic test
• Exception that home care will be resumed following discharge from facility
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RFA 6: Transfer; No DC (cont.)• Short stay observation periods in a hospital
do not count as a transfer -regardless of duration• Not a comprehensive assessment-does not
require a home visit -May gather information via telephone• If hospitalization discovered during home visit,
need transfer (RFA 6) and ROC
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RFA 7: Transfer & DC• Data collection completed when:
-Admitted to inpatient facility bed for 24 hrs or more
-For reasons other than diagnostic test• No plan to resume care of patient• No additional OASIS DC data required• Short stay observation periods in a hospital do
not count as a Transfer
-Regardless of durationClinical Record Issues 17
RFA 7: Transfer & DC (cont.)
• Also completed when patient dies:
-In ER
-In inpatient bed before stay of 24 hours
(M0906 guidance)
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RFA 8: Death at Home
• Data collection-not assessment
• Patient dies before being treated in an ER or before being admitted to an inpatient facility
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RFA 9: Discharge• Comprehensive assessment when patient
discharged from agency -For reasons other than death or transfer
to inpatient facility -An actual patient interaction, a visit, is
required• Complete when you transfer and
discharge to another HHA or an in-home hospice
Clinical Record Issues 20
Unplanned or Unexpected Discharge
• If discharge is unplanned, requirement must still be met
• Discharge assessment must report patient status at an actual visit
• Assessment data should be based on the last visit conducted by a qualified clinician
Clinical Record Issues 21
M0102• (M0102) Date of Physician-ordered Start of Care
(Resumption of Care): If the physician indicated a specific start of care (resumption of care) date when the patient was referred for home health services, record the date specified.
• _ _/_ _/ _ _ _ _ • Month/date/year• {Go to M0110, if date entered}• NA – No specific SOC date ordered by physician
Clinical Record Issues 22
M0102 (cont.)• Date of physician-ordered SOC/ROC
-If MD indicated a specific date on referral
-If date entered, skip M0104 Date of referral and go to M0110 Episode Timing
-Mark NA: If initial orders do not specify a SOC date
• If the originally ordered SOC is delayed for any reason
-Report the date on the updated or revised order
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M102 (cont.)
• Referral from a facility is made on behalf of the physician and is considered for M0102
• Date must be specific, not ranges (i.e., 1-2 days following hospitalization)
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M0104
• (M0104) Date of Referral: Indicate the date that the written or verbal referral for initiation or resumption of care was received by the HHA.
• _ _/_ _/_ _ _ _
• Month/day/year
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M0104: Date of Referral• Most recent date verbal, written or
electronic authorization to begin care was received by HHA
• If SOC is delayed for any reason, driven by patient’s condition of MD request
• -Report the date HHA received updated/revised referral information
• Does not refer to calls from ALF or family preparing HHA for possible admission
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M0110
• (M0110) Episode Timing: Is the Medicare home health payment episode fro which this assessment will define a case mix group an “early” episode of a “later” episode in the patient’s current sequence of adjacent Medicare home health payment episodes?
• 1 -early• 2 -later• UK -unknown• NA -Not applicable: No Medicare case mix
group to be defined by this assessment
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M0110: Episode Timing• PPS payment item
-Also used by non-PPS payers using a PPS-like payment model
• Identifies placement of the current MC payment episode in the patient’s current sequence of adjacent MC PPS payment episodes
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M0110: Episode Timing (cont.)• Sequence of adjacent MC PPS payment
episodes = a continuous series of MC PPS payment episodes
-Regardless of whether the same HHA provided care for the entire series
-Low utilization payment adjustment (LUPA) episodes (less than 5 total visits) and Partial Episode Payments (PEP) included
-Denied episodes are not included
Clinical Record Issues 29
M0110: Episode Timing (cont.)
• Adjacent means there was no gap between MC-covered episodes of more than 60 days
-care under HMO, MA or private payer = gap days when counting the sequence of MC episodes
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M0110: Episode timing (cont.)
• “1-Early” selected if this is:
-The only PPS episode in a single episode case
Or
-The first or second PPS episode in a sequence of adjacent MC home health PPS payment episodes
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M0110: Episode Timing (cont.)
• “2-Later” selected if this is:
-The third or later PPS episode in a current sequence of adjacent Medicare home health PPS payment episodes
• “UK – Unknown” selected if:
-The placement of this PPA payment episode in the sequence of adjacent episodes is unknown
-For payment, this will have the same effect as selecting the “Early” response
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M0110: Episode Timing (cont.)
• Enter “NA” if no Medicare case mix group is to be defined for this episode
• If you select “NA” you cannot generate the PPS payment code (HIPPS/HHRG)
• Some non-MC payers will use this information in setting an episode payment rate
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Counting Days Manually• An MC payment episode ordinarily comprises 60
days beginning with SOC date, or 60 days beginning with recertification date
• There can be a gap of up to 60 days between episodes in the same sequence
• To determine if adjacent count from the last day of one payment episode (Day 0) until the first day of the next
• If you count 60 or less = adjacent episode
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Counting Days Manually (cont.)
• A sequence of adjacent MC payment episodes continues as long as there is no 60-day gap, even if MC episodes are provided by different home health agencies
• Episodes with HMO’s, Medicaid, or private payers do not count as part of a sequence-they are part of the gap between PPS episodes
• If the period of service with those payers is 60 days or more, the next MC home health payment episode would begin a new sequence
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• Questions???E-mail: [email protected]
Cindy Skogen, RN; Oasis Education Coordinator
651-201-3818
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