Provider Questions

Test Your Knowledge Questions: 

1) If a home health agency completes a resumption of care visit on a patient and then no further visits are completed, does the agency need to complete an unexpected discharge OASIS? Or since only one visit was made, the resumption of care, was made and no further visits ended up being completed, does that close out the episode? 

2) I know for a Medicare Advantage, the patient's Medicare number is put on the OASIS for identification. Do the Medicare Advantage plans need to have OASIS submissions into the iQIES system? 

3) What do the terms "Encode" and "Transmit" refer to?

4) True or False: As long as the 30-day submission time frame has been met, HHAs are free to develop schedules for transmitting the data that best suits their needs.

5) According to OASIS, what is the definition of Rehabilitation Therapy?

6) If staples remain in a surgical wound, would it be considered as not healing?