Provider Questions

Provider Questions:

1) Who collects OASIS-E Data?

2) Can a recertification be submitted outside the last 5 days of a certification period (days 56-60)? 

3) A HHA asked how to answer questions on the DC from agency assessment, particularly the health literacy questions when the nurse does not go to the patient's home to complete the assessment. The given example was when the insurance and/or doctor said no more visits are needed/approved and the HHA reached out to the patient to ask if they could return to the patient’s home one more time to complete the DC assessment (and inform them they would be billed privately for this), the patient often declines to have the nurse return. In this situation and for questions like A1250: Transportation, would the proper response be ‘patient unable to respond’ or ‘patient declines to respond’? A dash is not a valid response for this item.