OASIS INFO

last updated 05/20/08

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Changes for 2007-2008 include:

	Eliminated the SCIC... "YEAH!!!!!!!"
	Non-Routine Supplies Unbundled For 31 skin conditions (decubs, stasis ulcers and surgical wounds) and 8 other Clinical factors (including IVs, ostomies, and catheters)
	New Case Mix Diagnoses and "booster" diagnoses
	Added and subtracted MO numbers on OASIS (download the 2008 OASIS B1)

LUPA, PEP and Outlier Episodes retained

2 New Items for Home Care Compare:

	Emergent Care Wound Infections
	Improvement of surgical wounds

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Download the 2008 OASIS B-1

More OASIS general information is available at CMS sites:

http://cms.hhs.gov/oasis/

http://cms.hhs.gov/oasis/hhnew.asp

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/datasubm.asp

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis/oasispps.asp

2008 episode calendar... see Resources page

Here's some suggested reading...

"A Primer on ICD-9-CM Coding"
by Sue Prophet-Bowman RHIA, CCS
Home Healthcare Nurse, June 2003, vol. 21 no. 6
FOLLOW THESE LINKS...WWW.NURSINGCENTER.COM
click on: Journal Articles
then on: Journals
then: Home Healthcare Nurse
select June 2003 and the article
earn CEUs as well

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