Test your knowledge

Test your knowledge questions:

1) Is treatment in the hospital emergency department and discharged home considered an inpatient admission when scoring the OASIS items in M1000 and M1005?

2) If the patient has Medicare, but Medicare is not the primary pay source for a given episode, should the patient's Medicare number be entered?

3) If a patient with macular degeneration who wears corrective lenses and uses an adaptive reader is able to read prescription labels, is the patient assessed with what they can see using the adaptive reader?

4) What would be the correct response for a patient who is only short of breath (SOB) when supine and requires the use of oxygen only at night due to this positional dyspnea? The patient is not SOB when walking more than 20 feet or climbing stairs.