CODE4Five is also your partner as we all brave the worldwide pandemic COVID19.  As Home Health frontliners, we put patients one of our top priorities.  CMS are proactively working hand in hand with us as we go through this situation.  Do you have the following questions in your mind?

Who are now considered homebound?
Does telehealth visit considered LUPA?
Will RAPs be auto-canceled if not finalized on given time frame?
What are the COVID19 codes?
How about OASIS and COPs during COVID19? 

These and more are answered in this quick reference guide.
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For up-to-date further details, please visit: www.cms.gov/files/document/03092020-covid-19-faqs-508.pdf
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Just barely three (3) months in OASIS-D1, then CMS had publicized OASIS-E instrument in CMS website last March 18.  Change is indeed the only constant thing in the field of Home Health.

​The recently posted OASIS-E Draft had the finalized updates in the CMS Home Health CY 2020 Final Rule which will be effective 1st of January, 2021.  This draft of the latest version of OASIS also showed the additional items which will integrate across Post-Acute-Care settings data collection. 

There was no accompanying guidance revision yet included in the posted draft.
This draft however, has yet to be approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

​For complete information including changed tables and additional date, please go to go.cms.gov/2U0u1mF.