Home Health Comprehensive Assessment with OASIS

There are five eligibility criteria for the Medicare home health benefit.

• True

• False

Eligibility criteria include homebound status, but not the need for skilled services.

• True

• False

Documenting “it is a taxing effort for the patient to leave home” supports eligibility criteria for the Medicare home health benefit.

• True

• False

A diagnosis or a diagnosis code is adequate documentation to support the need for skilled services.

• True

• False

A patient that requires the assistance of another person or mechanical device to get in and out of their home is automatically eligible for home health

services through their Medicare benefit.

• True

• False

How many data elements constitute the OASIS?

• About 80

• About 100

• About 180

• About 210

Federal regulations pertaining to the comprehensive assessment require the agency to:

• Create a separate OASIS document and a separate assessment document

• Use the OASIS document for all patients

• Use the OASIS document only for its Medicare patients

• Use the OASIS on all adult, Medicare, or Medicaid non-maternity patients receiving skilled care

In the current PPS model, the home health resource groups are based on OASIS data and recognize which three different domains?

• Clinical, functional, severity

• Clinical, functional, safety

• Clinical, functional, service

• Clinical, functional, source

The regulations require home health agencies to complete a comprehensive assessment with OASIS elements on:

• all Medicaid maternity patients

• all Medicaid patient receiving personal care services

• all Medicare patients who need skilled care

• all Medicare patients needing skilled and personal care services

Pristine Care Home Health Services, Inc. has accepted a referral for a Medicare patient who needs SN, PT, OT, and CHHA services. Who completes the SOC assessment?

• PT

• OT

• RN

• CHHA