How Patient Risks Sabotage the Home Health Admission
OASIS Has 132 Questions. 44 Are Patient Risk Factors.
Medicare places great importance on managing risk factors.
There are 132 questions on OASIS E1 Start of Care and 44 (33%) are risk factor questions. Since the original version released in 1998, the majority of the OASIS assessment...
12 New Mental Status Questions on OASIS-E
Medicare's draft OASIS-E assessment, effective January 2023, expands its data collection on the patient's cognition to include 12 more questions. Medicare has incorporated the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) for the home health clinician to evaluate cognitive impairment and...
