CASPER is an acronym for Certification And Survey Provider Enhanced Reports. These are reports that are compiled using your submitted OASIS data to demonstrate your agency’s performance. Current metrics are benchmarked against a prior period and the national rate. All home health agencies are required to submit OASIS data for any home health patient who …
CMS has provided a basic framework for a Performance Improvement program with the new Conditions of Participation (CoPs) rule. Scheduled for phase-in on January 13, 2018 initially, QAPI compliance requirement was moved to July 13, 2018. As of this time, July 13, 2018 is the final deadline for agencies to get going on their QAPI …
On March 12, 2018, the Federal Register posted a Comment Request that included changing the OASIS data set. This is the next step in the process of updating to OASIS-D which CMS has scheduled for implementation on January 1, 2019. What will be different? Quite a bit, it seems. You can find the data elements …
Beginning April 1, 2018, CMS will be mailing out replacement cards for all Medicare beneficiaries with a Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN). The HICNs are being changed to Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) because the traditional Medicare numbers were based on Social Security Numbers. It is a step CMS is taking to help protect patient information. …
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