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Best Practices to Solve Common OASIS-E Problems: Candid Tips from Top Auditors

Accurate OASIS data collection is a critical element of both financial and clinical success for home health agencies. Now that OASIS-E has been around for nearly a year, it’s a good time to assess how it’s going and continue to improve and reinforce concepts.

In this guide, OASIS-E auditors and industry experts Cindy Krafft, PT, MS, HCS-O, and Terry Greenhalgh, RN, CHC, HCS-D, HCS-C, COS-C, address some of the most common OASIS-E trouble areas in four key sections—G and GG (Assessing Function), M (Wounds), and N (Medications). They share the errors they’ve been seeing most frequently in each section and provide actionable tips and strategies for optimizing patient assessment, data collection, clinical decision-making, and documentation.

In our new guide, you’ll learn:

Which areas of OASIS-E clinicians tend to struggle with the most.
Best practices for assessment and documentation in those areas.
How MedBridge can help.

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About the Guide

Meet the Authors

Cindy Krafft, PT, MS, HCS-O

K&K Healthcare Solutions

Cindy Krafft brings more than 20 years of home health expertise that ranges from direct patient care to operational and management issues. Years spent in the homes of patients confirmed that she was in the best setting to focus on functionality and the specific challenges faced … by each patient. Cindy recognizes that providing care in the home environment is different from providing care in any other setting, which is evident in both her training and consultation activities.

For the past 10 years, Cindy has been a nationally recognized educator in the areas of documentation, regulation, therapy utilization, and OASIS. She has served in several national projects and been an expert resource for OASIS updates. Her focus is on providing the knowledge and tools to operationalize external requirements while keeping the driver of care where it needs to be--the needs of each patient being cared for in the home setting.

Cindy has been involved at the senior leadership level of the Home Health Section of the American Physical Therapy Association for more than 10 years and is the immediate past president of that organization. She has been working with APTA and CMS to clarify regulatory expectations and address proposed payment methodologies to ensure the long-term participation of therapy services in home health. She has written two books--The How-to Guide to Home Health Therapy Documentation and An Interdisciplinary Approach to Home Care--and coauthored a third, The Post-Acute Care Guide to Maintenance Therapy.

Terry Greenhalgh, RN, CHC, HCS-D, HCS-C, COS-C

Terry Greenhalgh is a registered nurse certified in healthcare compliance, home healthcare compliance, ICD-10 coding, and OASIS review. During her more than 30 years of experience in home health, she has worked as the manager of a therapy group and been a field clinician, QAPI … supervisor, director of nursing, compliance officer, and administrator. She now works as a consultant specializing in audits/appeals, compliance, and education. She has been involved in audits of all types, including ADR, ZPIC, TPE, RAC, and SMRC. She has presented more than 100 appeals before administrative law judges. Terry graduated from the University of Alberta School of Nursing and went on to employment in the neurosurgical ICU. She then spent three years working in the ICU in Saudi Arabia to fulfill her desire to see the world.

Who is this guide for?

This guide is an ideal resource for:

All practitioners in leadership roles
Healthcare executives
Managers, administrators, and other healthcare leaders

These best practices can be applied in the following settings:

Home Health

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