OASIS - Updates and Best Practices
Join us in Columbia, SC as Arlynn Hansell spends the day reviewing OASIS-D items and guidance, as well as best practices to ensure your documentation is accurate! Bring your burning OASIS-D questions and come ready to work through the ADL items to ensure accurate reporting of patients’ functional status!
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OBJECTIVES:
• Learn the specific OASIS-D items and guidance that are new.
• Get details on items that have been removed from OASIS-D. Learn how to capture these conditions now that they are no longer on the assessment form.
• Avoid CMS surveyor scrutiny with best practices for answering the OASIS SOC/ROC in timely fashion.
• Correctly apply OASIS conventions to item-specific scenarios, while also learning how to apply OASIS-specific definitions for terms such as intractable pain, active treatment, care episode, same day, minimal assistance, and more.
• Master the complicated wound items, including how to report pressure ulcers, stasis ulcers, surgical wounds and trauma wounds, and how to report their healing status.
• Ensure accuracy in the reporting of neuro/emotional/behavioral items.
• Work through the ADL items to ensure you’re accurately reporting the patient’s functional status.
• Walk away with best practices to ensure your documentation matches the OASIS, which matches the plan of care.
Arlynn Hansell, PT, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, COS-C
Arlynn Hansell has been a Physical Therapist in both the home health and SNF settings since October 1998, holding positions of therapist, rehab manager, and quality/compliance assurance. Arlynn is the Owner of Therapy and More, LLC, where services consist of OASIS auditing, ICD-10 coding for home health and hospice, therapy visit note audits, and end of episode quality reviews. In addition, she assists agencies in achieving therapy documentation and practice excellence in order to better position themselves against auditors. Arlynn is appointed to the BMSC Home Health Advisory Panel, where she serves as Vice Chair. She was a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, where she served as the past Vice President of the Home Health Section. She is involved in the creation and editing of the HCS-D, HCS-O, HCS-H certification exams, and is the editor of the Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS D online guidance.