Less than two weeks before a new version of the OASIS is scheduled to take effect, CMS has released a final guidance manual for the revised assessment.
 
OASIS-D is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, 2019, and will involve removing 28 items, adding six new items and revising seven additional items. Like the draft guidance manual, the final OASIS-D guidance manual is 335 pages.
 
Many providers and industry experts expect OASIS-D to take more time to complete.
 
In fact, about 75% of the 270 respondents to a question on DecisionHealth’s OASIS-D Survey believe OASIS-D will take more time overall to complete than OASIS-C2. And 70% of respondents expect it to take clinicians more than 70 minutes to complete OASIS-D at start of care (SOC).
 
In contrast, only 38% of the 268 respondents to a separate survey question say OASIS-C2 currently takes more than 70 minutes to complete at SOC.
 
The time that clinicians expect to spend on OASIS-D is far greater than CMS’ expectation — that clinicians will spend 47.7 minutes on OASIS-D at SOC.
 
Related link: View the final guidance manual at https://bit.ly/2LqYNz0​.