Outcome and Assessment Information Set OASIS-D Guidance Manual

Outcome and Assessment Information Set

OASIS-D

Guidance Manual

Effective January 1, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION

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Preface ....................................................................................................................................................... 1-1

Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 1-1

Revision History ......................................................................................................................................... 1-1

Manual Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 1-2

Why is OASIS Being Revised Now?.......................................................................................................... 1-3

What's New with the OASIS-D Assessment Instrument?.......................................................................... 1-3

What's New with the OASIS-D Guidance? ................................................................................................ 1-3

Collecting OASIS Data............................................................................................................................... 1-3

Eligible Patients............................................................................................................................. 1-3

Time Points ................................................................................................................................... 1-3

Who Completes OASIS?............................................................................................................... 1-4

Comprehensive Assessment and Plan of Care ............................................................................ 1-5

Process of Care Data Items .......................................................................................................... 1-5

Conventions for Completing OASIS.............................................................................................. 1-6

OASIS Data Accuracy................................................................................................................................ 1-7

OASIS Data Encoding and Transmission .................................................................................................. 1-8

CHAPTER 2 -- OASIS-D: ALL ITEMS AND TIME POINTS VERSIONS

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Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 2-1

All Items...................................................................................................................................................... 2-2

Patient Tracking ...................................................................................................................................... 2-33

Start of Care (SOC) - Admission to Home Health Care........................................................................... 2-34

Resumption of Care (ROC) after Inpatient Facility Stay .......................................................................... 2-53

Follow-up (FU) ? Recertification or Other Follow-up ............................................................................... 2-71

Transfer to Inpatient Facility (TRN).......................................................................................................... 2-80

Discharge (DC) from Home Health Care, not to an Inpatient Facility...................................................... 2-85

Death at Home (DAH) .............................................................................................................................. 2-98

CHAPTER 3 -- OASIS ITEM GUIDANCE

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Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 3-1

Patient Tracking ........................................................................................................................................3-A

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Clinical Record Items ................................................................................................................................3-B

Patient History and Diagnoses ................................................................................................................ 3-C

Living Arrangements ................................................................................................................................ 3-D

Sensory Status..........................................................................................................................................3-E

Integumentary ...........................................................................................................................................3-F

Respiratory Status ................................................................................................................................... 3-G

[Intentionally Left Blank]........................................................................................................................... 3-H

Elimination Status ...................................................................................................................................... 3-I

Neuro, Emotional, and Behavioral Status................................................................................................. 3-J

ADLs / IADLs ............................................................................................................................................3-K

Medications............................................................................................................................................... 3-L

Care Management ................................................................................................................................... 3-M

Therapy Need .......................................................................................................................................... 3-N

Emergent Care......................................................................................................................................... 3-O

Discharge ..................................................................................................................................................3-P

Functional Abilities and Goals .............................................................................................................. 3-GG

Health Conditions...................................................................................................................................... 3-J

CHAPTER 4 -- [Intentionally Left Blank]

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CHAPTER 5 -- RESOURCES / LINKS

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Appendices

Appendix A: OASIS and the Comprehensive Assessment........................................................................A-1

Appendix B: OASIS Data Accuracy ...........................................................................................................B-1

Appendix C: OASIS-D Items, Time Points, and Uses .............................................................................. C-1

Appendix D: [Intentionally Left Blank] ....................................................................................................... D-1

Appendix E: Data Reporting Regulations ..................................................................................................E-1

Appendix F: OASIS and Quality Improvement...........................................................................................F-1

Appendix G: Description of Changes from OASIS-C2 to OASIS D .......................................................... G-1

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Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1 OASIS GUIDANCE MANUAL INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

This manual provides guidance for home health agencies (HHAs) on how to ensure the collection of high-quality (accurate) OASIS data. It includes both general data collection conventions and item-specific guidance, as well as links to resources for agencies.

Since OASIS collection was implemented in 1999, national interest in the area of home health care quality measurement and improvement has been ongoing. CMS received hundreds of comments about OASIS from a variety of sources: providers, professional organizations (e.g., American Nurses Association and the American Physical Therapy Association), home care provider organizations, accrediting organizations, researchers, etc. In addition, individuals and groups with expertise in health care quality measurement, such as the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the National Quality Forum (NQF), and many technical expert panels commissioned by CMS to guide OASIS evolution have offered suggestions for improving OASIS and expanding the domains of home health quality measurement to address the six aims (safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and patient-centeredness) articulated by the Institute of Medicine in their 2001 report "Crossing the Quality Chasm."

Input from the NQF, a nonprofit organization that endorses national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance has been especially valuable in guiding the evolution of OASIS and associated performance reports. NQF-endorsed voluntary consensus standards are widely viewed as the gold standard for measurement of health care quality. NQF has endorsed a number of OASIS-based quality measures for public reporting. Endorsed measures are periodically reviewed for continuing endorsement, and, as measure development continues, new or revised measures are submitted to NQF for review.

INTRODUCTION

The Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) is a group of standard data elements developed, tested, and refined over the course of two decades through a research and demonstration program funded primarily by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New York State Department of Health. OASIS data elements were designed to enable systematic comparative measurement of home health care patient outcomes at two points in time.

OASIS-based quality measures can be used for quality improvement efforts that home health agencies (HHAs) can employ to assess and improve the quality of care they provide to patients. CMS provides HHAs with numerous quality measure reports including outcome, process, potentially avoidable event, patient-related characteristic, and patient tally reports. Reports are provided for up to two time intervals selected by the HHA requesting the reports. Process quality measures include indicators of how often the HHA follows best practices to improve patient outcomes. Outcome measures include end-result functional and physical health improvement/stabilization, health care utilization measures, and potentially avoidable events. Potentially avoidable events are negative outcomes that clinical evidence indicates can be influenced (although not necessarily totally avoided) by following best practices in providing care. In addition to quality measurement, certain OASIS data elements are used to adjust per-episode payment rates for patient conditions that affect care needs.

REVISION HISTORY

1. OASIS C Guidance Manual Original Publication: September 2009

2. Revision 1: December 2009

3. Revision 2: January 2011

4. Revision 3: January 2012

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