Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training
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OASIS Introduction OASIS-E Changes OASIS Training ICD-10 Coding Basics ICD-10 Intermediate ICD-10 Advanced

OASIS Introduction
Course Overview
OASIS INTRODUCTION: Build the Foundation to Ensure Future OASIS Success

The course introduces staff, whether they are clinical or administrative, to the foundations of OASIS.

Lay the groundwork for future OASIS success

The course introduces staff, whether they are clinical or administrative, to the foundations of OASIS. The key to completing the OASIS accurately is understanding its importance and relatability to key rules and guidance for the operation of home health. Due to the myriad uses of the OASIS, a lack of understanding and appreciation for it can be detrimental to an agency, resulting in both financial and outcomes losses.

Course Agenda

  • Introduction to the Home Health Benefit
  • Eligible patients, who completes the OASIS
  • Intent/Purpose of OASIS
  • OASIS format, Time Points, and purpose of each Section
  • Data reporting regulations/OASIS CoP
  • How do OASIS and plan of care work together
  • Importance of data accuracy and its impact on PDGM
  • OASIS role in quality improvement
  • Risk assessment tools and their role in the OASIS
  • How to use the OASIS Guidance Manual
  • Comprehensive Resources: In each Section of the course, the title page will further indicate the applicable regulatory resources to support the content of that section. The resources are located in this section.
  • OASIS-Specific Definitions


    Learning Objectives:
  • Describe the requirements for homebound status
  • Summarize the five requirements to receive home health services
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the use of OASIS as it works within the PAC continuum
  • Demonstrate an understanding of who may complete an OASIS and when
  • Gain a basic understanding of the regulations surrounding the OASIS use and completion
  • Describe how the OASIS and plan of care work together
  • Understand the OASIS items that relate to payment
  • Understand how OASIS data is used for quality purposes
  • Identify the risk assessment tools referenced in the OASIS and their role in the OASIS
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the contents and layout of the OASIS Guidance Manual
  • Understand the regulatory resources that support the content
  • Demonstrate an understanding of key OASIS item definitions and their application within the OASIS form

    Audience: Coders who have a role in OASIS review, clinicians new to home health, QA staff
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    Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your OASIS education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-O certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

    OASIS-E Trainer: Provides the assessment and care planning strategies you’ll need to achieve OASIS-E accuracy and quality outcomes. Learn more here.

    Home Health OASIS Assessment: Identify & measure your own and/or your staff's OASIS understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time. Learn more here.

    Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: OASIS Training: This virtual online training is your next step in your path to OASIS certification. Learn how to properly answer the most challenging OASIS items while reinforcing your core OASIS competencies without sacrificing productivity. Learn more here.

    Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS (HCS-O) Certification Study Guide: This study guide takes you through the competencies necessary to master as you prepare for the HCS-O certification exam. It delivers OASIS assessment tips and sample test questions. Learn more here.

    OASIS Form Companion: Keep all your OASIS documents in one easy-to-reference resource that allows you to easily search for the OASIS guidance you use most often. Note, the OASIS Form Companion is an allowable resource when taking the HCS-O exam and can be taken into the exam room. Learn more here.

    Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff: Get up to speed on the latest revisions to the OASIS assessment, while also reinforcing core competencies so you can accurately and efficiently complete every assessment. Learn more here.

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide:Your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. It is conveniently separated into chapters devoted to each type of wound commonly seen in home health, including pressure, arterial, stasis and diabetic ulcers, and surgical, trauma and complicated wounds. Learn more here.

    OASIS-E Changes
    Course Overview
    OASIS-E CHANGES

    Don’t get left behind. Get an introduction and deep dive into the new and changing OASIS-E items, which take effect January 1, 2023, and their related guidance. Early prep can keep staff from becoming overwhelmed and improve your outcomes, including reducing readmissions, by collecting key data that can help with care planning and outcomes improvement.

    This training focuses only on the changes to OASIS-E, including those items that are new to the assessment form. If you’re looking for item-by-item training that covers every OASIS-E item and its guidance, please see our Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: OASIS Training.

    Course Agenda

  • Why OASIS-E, Why Now: Get an overview of OASIS-E, including an understanding of why CMS made the move to OASIS-E, and take a detailed look at which items have been removed, which have been revised, and why. The switch to this new version is a huge overhaul and reflects the process of data standardization among postacute providers as required by the IMPACT Act.
  • Get a Detailed Look Into the New OASIS-E Items: Understand how to complete new OASIS-E items A2120–A2124 (Reconciled Medication List), B0200 (Hearing), B1000 (Vision), B1300 (Health Literacy), J0510–J0530 (Pain), K0520 (Nutritional Approaches), N0415 (High-Risk Drug Classes), and O0110 (Special Treatments, Procedures, and Programs).
  • Take a Deep Dive Into the New Cognitive Items: Walk through how to accurately answer the new cognitive items C0100, C0200–C0500 (BIMS), C1310 (Signs/Symptoms of Delirium from CAM©), D0150–D0160 (Patient Mood Interview), and D0700 (Social Isolation) to ensure appropriate plan of care development and risk adjustment of outcomes.

    • Learning Objectives

  • Articulate the rational for the upgrade from OASIS-D1 to OASIS-E.
  • Relate new layout of the OASIS items.
  • Describe how to complete the new OASIS items.


    • Audience: Who Should Listen? • Clinicians who are new to home health and the OASIS form and need a deep dive into how to accurately complete the form, and/or clinicians who need a refresher on how to complete the form • Home health clinicians • Clinical Supervisors • Directors of Nursing • Quality Managers • Quality assurance/performance improvement staff • Compliance officers
    Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your OASIS education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-O certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

    Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: OASIS Training: This virtual online training is your next step in your path to OASIS certification. Learn how to properly answer the most challenging OASIS items while reinforcing your core OASIS competencies without sacrificing productivity. Learn more here.

    OASIS-E Trainer: Provides the assessment and care planning strategies you’ll need to achieve OASIS-E accuracy and quality outcomes. Learn more here.

    Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS (HCS-O) Certification Study Guide: This study guide takes you through the competencies necessary to master as you prepare for the HCS-O certification exam. It delivers OASIS assessment tips and sample test questions. Learn more here.

    OASIS Form Companion: Keep all your OASIS documents in one easy-to-reference resource that allows you to easily search for the OASIS guidance you use most often. Note, the OASIS Form Companion is an allowable resource when taking the HCS-O exam and can be taken into the exam room. Learn more here.

    Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff: Get up to speed on the latest revisions to the OASIS assessment, while also reinforcing core competencies so you can accurately and efficiently complete every assessment. Learn more here.

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide:Your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. It is conveniently separated into chapters devoted to each type of wound commonly seen in home health, including pressure, arterial, stasis and diabetic ulcers, and surgical, trauma and complicated wounds. Learn more here.

    Home Health OASIS Assessment: Identify & measure your own and/or your staff's OASIS understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time. Learn more here.

    OASIS Training
    Course Overview
    OASIS TRAINING

    BONUS: Receive HCS-O study session materials with purchase of this training!
    Learn how to properly answer the OASIS-E items while reinforcing your core OASIS competencies, all without sacrificing productivity. This training is an OASIS-E item-by-item training covering the entire OASIS-E assessment form, including the new OASIS-E items and coming changes effective January 1, 2023. This training is also a prep course for the HCS-O credentialing exam.

    OASIS accuracy is the key to documentation compliance, positive outcome scores, and full and proper reimbursement. Attend this OASIS-E training and gain best practices and official guidance on how to correctly answer those questions that continue to create confusion and put your agency at risk when answered incorrectly.

    During the training, you will:

  • Delve into the new OASIS-E items,,ncluding A2120–A2124 (Reconciled Medication List), B0200 (Hearing), B1000 (Vision), B1300 (Health Literacy), J0510–J0530 (Pain), and K0520 (Nutritional Approaches).

  • Understand who can complete the OASIS and what is required at each time point (SOC, ROC, transfer).

  • Take a close look at the new cognitive items,including C0100, C0200–C0500 (BIMS), C1310 (Signs/Symptoms of Delirium from CAM©), D0150–D0160 (Patient Mood Interview), and D0700 (Social Isolation), to ensure appropriate POC development and risk adjustment of outcomes.

  • Dive into the challenging functional item, ncluding M1800–M1860 and the GG items, to ensure you're accurately reporting the patient's functional status—incorrect answers for these items will skew PDGM functional impairment level points and outcome scores.

  • Learn how to accurately answer the bladder and bowel items (M1600–M1630).

  • Understand the interaction of certain OASIS and coding itemsand how they impact the PDGM payment system.

  • Properly assess and report patients’ fall risk (J1800–J1900).

  • Master the complicated wound items, including how to report pressure ulcers, stasis ulcers, surgical wounds, and trauma wounds, and how to report their healing status (M1306–M1342).

    Learn how to accurately answer the medication items,including M2001–M2030 and the new item N0415 (High-Risk Drug Classes)

    Walk through the guidance for completing new section O0110 (Special Treatments, Procedures, and Programs).

    Audience: Who Should Listen? • Clinicians who are new to home health and the OASIS form and need a deep dive into how to accurately complete the form, and/or clinicians who need a refresher on how to complete the form • Home health clinicians • Clinical Supervisors • Directors of Nursing • Quality Managers • Quality assurance/performance improvement staff • Compliance officers

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    Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your OASIS education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-O certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

    Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS (HCS-O) Certification Study Guide: This study guide takes you through the competencies necessary to master as you prepare for the HCS-O certification exam. It delivers OASIS assessment tips and sample test questions. Learn more

    OASIS Form Companion: Keep all your OASIS documents in one easy-to-reference resource that allows you to easily search for the OASIS guidance you use most often. Note, the OASIS Form Companion is an allowable resource when taking the HCS-O exam and can be taken into the exam room.Learn more

    Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff: Get up to speed on the latest revisions to the OASIS assessment, while also reinforcing core competencies so you can accurately and efficiently complete every assessment.Learn more

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide: Your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. It is conveniently separated into chapters devoted to each type of wound commonly seen in home health, including pressure, arterial, stasis and diabetic ulcers, and surgical, trauma and complicated wounds. Learn more

    Home Health OASIS Assessment Identify & measure your own and/or your staff's OASIS understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time. Learn more

    ICD-10 Coding Basics
    Course Overview
    ICD-10 CODING BASICS: This session is intended for new and less experienced home health coders.

    Understand the core coding competencies that dictate accurate coding. Start with the coding fundamentals, guidelines, and conventions while you learn how your code choices impact your agency’s reimbursement and patient outcomes. Expert speaker J’non Griffin includes opportunities to pause the recording to work through scenarios, which she discusses in depth to ensure retention and comprehension.

    Bonus: You’ll also have access to the FY2024 ICD-10 Code & Guideline Update webinar, which will provide FY2024 code and guideline training so you’re up to speed.

    Learn how to:

  • Navigate the ICD-10 conventions & guidelines, including the use of laterality, Excludes notes, unspecified codes, sequelae, 7th character assignment, and key sequencing guidelines
  • Use the Alphabetic Index, Tabular List, and neoplasm table to correctly find codes
  • Apply critical thinking in understanding the sequencing of common diagnoses
  • Recognize key coding and OASIS interactions
  • Navigate the legal and ethical standards of care and clinician collaboration
  • Look up codes in the coding manual including how to understand code structure, conventions and guidelines.
  • Apply what you’ve learned by working through common home health scenarios

    Required material: All participants must have an ICD-10-CM coding manual OR the Home Health Coding Center to participate. We recommend DecisionHealth’s Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual or DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coding Center

    Audience: Who Should Listen? • Beginner coders • Clinicians who code • Home health supervisors who are taking a role in coding

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    Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your coding education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-D certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Assessment: Identify your own and/or your staff's home health ICD-10-CM coding understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time.Learn more

    Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: ICD-10 Intermediate Coding: This virtual online training will walk you through how to sequence the most common home health diagnoses in ICD-10.Learn more

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Answers: To learn how to accurately code in ICD-10, you must practice coding. Practice your coding by working through 200 ICD-10 coding scenarios that cover home health's most complicated situations.Learn more

    Home Care Coding Specialist – Diagnosis (HCS-D) Certification Study Guide: This study guide will help prepare you to take the Home Care Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D) certification examination, offered by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC). You’ll get tips and sample test questions authored by BMSC Board members. Learn more

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Companion: A guide to accurate coding and compliance with expert guidance and comprehensive decision trees to help you navigate the ICD-10 code set.Learn more

    Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health:Monthly newsletter that delivers guidance on selecting the correct codes to accurately reflect a patient’s condition, prevent claims delays, support OASIS assessments and ensure proper payment.Learn more

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide: Is your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. Learn more

    Home Health Value Based Purchasing Guide, First Edition: Delivering best practices for improving all the key OASIS, claims and CAHPs based items that are used to determine Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) bonuses. Learn more

    ICD-10 Intermediate
    Course Overview
    ICD-10 INTERMEDIATE: This session is intended for intermediate-level coders who have been coding in home health for at least 1 year, and are planning to sit for their HCS-D credential, or who became credentialed in the past year.

    Learn how to sequence the most common home health diagnoses in ICD-10. Expert speaker Arlynn Hansell includes opportunities to pause the recording to work through scenarios, which she discusses in depth to ensure retention and comprehension.

    BONUS: Receive the HCS-D study session materials with purchase of this training!

    New this year!: You’ll also have access to the FY2024 ICD-10 Code & Guideline Update webinar, which will provide FY2024 code and guideline training so you’re up to speed.

    More specifically, this training will cover :

  • Coding conventions and guidelines: Delve into the assumptions that can and cannot be made in ICD-10
  • COVID-19, including how to code active manifestations of COVID-19 vs late effects, including post COVID long-haulers condition; and when to assign Z86.16 instead of U07.1.
  • Documentation, OASIS, and coding: Learn how they work together to affect payment in the PDGM system and create a compliant record
  • Fractures, including traumatic and pathological fractures
  • Z codes versus a complication code: Work through scenarios to learn how to properly assign these codes
  • Wounds, including pressure ulcers, infected and non-healing surgical wounds, stasis ulcers and trauma wounds.
  • Diabetes: Learn how to choose the right code from five code categories, and review the differences in coding diabetic manifestations.
  • Cardiopulmonary, including hypertension, heart failure, and COPD versus asthma with COPD exacerbation versus emphysema.
  • CVA & late effects: Learn how to apply the 7th character to indicate sequela, as well as how to code dominant vs. non-dominant.
  • Symptom codes, including how and when to use them in PDGM
  • Mental health codes, including how to accurately code anxiety and depression, and substance abuse
  • Nervous system coding, including assigning the correct codes for post-polio syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, MS, pain and seizures.
  • Neoplasms & anemia, including surgical aftercare for neoplasms, and the key changes in coding anemia associated with malignancy, and anemia resulting from chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation therapy.
  • GI/GU, including how to report kidney disease (CKD), colitis and obstructions.
  • Poisoning and adverse effects: Learn how to report these diagnoses in ICD-10 when you will no longer be required to use the external cause codes (V00-Y99) – comparable to the E codes in the current set.
  • Review the differences between sepsis, SIRS, and septic shock, and identify correct infection verbiage for accurate coding


    Required material: All participants must have an ICD-10-CM coding manual OR the Home Health Coding Center to participate. We recommend DecisionHealth’s Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual or DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coding Center

    Audience: Who Should Listen? • Coders • Coding supervisors • Coding educators and trainers • Clinicians responsible for coding

    • Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your coding education and plan to eventually sit for the HCS-D certification exam, we recommend the following resources:

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Assessment: Identify your own and/or your staff's home health ICD-10-CM coding understanding, identify potential skills gaps, pinpoint areas for training opportunities, and monitor progress over time. Learn more

    Coding, OASIS, and Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp, LIVE October 17-18, 2023 :This is your opportunity to get expert training and demonstrate to your future and current employer that you are competent and efficient in OASIS, coding, and documentation QA. This essential review includes not just knowing how to select accurate diagnosis codes and correct OASIS responses. Compliant documentation demonstrates eligibility, identifies the skilled care your patients require, and ensures ethical reimbursement.Learn more

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Answers: To learn how to accurately code in ICD-10, you must practice coding. Practice your coding by working through 200 ICD-10 coding scenarios that cover home health's most complicated situations.Learn more

    Home Care Coding Specialist – Diagnosis (HCS-D) Certification Study Guide: This study guide will help prepare you to take the Home Care Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D) certification examination, offered by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC). You’ll get tips and sample test questions authored by BMSC Board members. Learn more

    Ultimate Coding & OASIS Training Virtual Series: ICD-10 Advanced Coding: This virtual online training is intended experienced, HCS-D certified coders. Take this course when you’re ready to expand your coding experience and receive continuing education at your expert level. Learn more here – hyperlink when new store page is ready.Learn more

    Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health:Monthly newsletter that delivers guidance on selecting the correct codes to accurately reflect a patient’s condition, prevent claims delays, support OASIS assessments and ensure proper payment.Learn more

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide: Is your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds. Learn more

    Home Health Value Based Purchasing Guide, First Edition: Delivering best practices for improving all the key OASIS, claims and CAHPs based items that are used to determine Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) bonuses. Learn more

    ICD-10 Advanced
    Course Overview
    ICD-10 ADVANCED: This session is intended for experienced, HCS-D certified coders with 3+ years in home health coding who consider themselves experts in ICD-10 coding.

    Take your coding to the next level by delving into the more complicated scenarios encountered in home health, while learning how PDGM affects your coding and ultimately your agency’s reimbursement.

    Bonus: You’ll also have access to the FY2024 ICD-10 Code & Guideline Update webinar, which will provide FY2024 code and guideline training so you’re up to speed.

    Expand your experience and receive continuing education at your expert level. During this advanced code training, you’ll work through practice scenarios to learn how to properly sequence a variety of the most challenging home health situations, including those with multiple complications, fractures and varied wound situations, including ostomies and trauma wounds. Also, learn how to handles cases with conflicting documentation.

    You’ll work through complicated disease scenarios, including those with multiple co-morbidities, and learn how to accurately and efficiently find the focus of care and what other conditions may need to be coded. Expert speaker J’non Griffin includes opportunities to pause the recording to work through scenarios, which she discusses in depth to ensure retention and comprehension.

    Required material: All participants must have an ICD-10-CM coding manual OR the Home Health Coding Center to participate. We recommend DecisionHealth’s Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual or DecisionHealth’s Home Health Coding Center

    Audience: Who Should Listen? • Experienced HCS-D certified coders
    Recommended Resources
    If you’re looking to continue your coding education, we recommend the following resources:

    Home Health ICD-10-CM Coding Answers: To learn how to accurately code in ICD-10, you must practice coding. Practice your coding by working through 200 ICD-10 coding scenarios that cover home health's most complicated situations.Learn more

    Coding, OASIS, and Documentation QA Virtual Boot Camp, LIVE October 17-18, 2023 :This is your opportunity to get expert training and demonstrate to your future and current employer that you are competent and efficient in OASIS, coding, and documentation QA. This essential review includes not just knowing how to select accurate diagnosis codes and correct OASIS responses. Compliant documentation demonstrates eligibility, identifies the skilled care your patients require, and ensures ethical reimbursement.Learn more

    Home Health Billing Answers::Walk through every step of the billing process and get crucial tips for avoiding common billing errors.Learn more

    Face To Face Answers: The complete guide to mastering home health and hospice face to face requirements..Learn more

    ICD-10-CM Wound Coding & OASIS Field Guide : Is your on-the-go reference to choose the right ICD-10 code and complete the OASIS for the most common home health wounds.Learn more

    Home Health Value Based Purchasing Guide, First Edition : Delivering best practices for improving all the key OASIS, claims and CAHPs based items that are used to determine Home Health Value Based Purchasing (HHVBP) bonuses.Learn more

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