Determine the healing status of wounds in OASIS-C

Your Expert Presenter

Judy Adams, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C

Judy Adams, RN, BSN, HCS-D, COS-C, is the president of Adams Home Care Consulting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has more than 25 years of clinical operations experience in the home care and hospice settings, and has presented hundreds of educational programs on nearly all aspects of home care.

Full reimbursement: Hit CMS’s moving target for wound guidance

CMS’s new OASIS-C guidance on the healing status of wounds creates more confusion than clarity.

Since the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) first released its OASIS-C wound guidance in December, CMS has issued a few updates. The terms used in the wound guidance to describe the progression of healing need further clarification. 

As a result, home health clinicians are still struggling to interpret CMS and WOCN guidance when answering the OASIS-C items: status of surgical wounds (M1342), pressure ulcers (M1320) and stasis ulcers (M1334).

These questions are often the most challenging, yet have the greatest impact on case-mix and supply scores, and ultimately payment and outcomes. Agencies can’t afford a single misstep.

Take command of CMS’s ever-changing expectations

Navigate the wound items with OASIS expert Judy Adams as she clarifies CMS’s ever-changing expectations for classifying the healing status of wounds, while also providing strategies for how to meet those expectations.

In this 90-minute webinar, you’ll learn: 

• How CMS’s most recent new wound guidance affects your answering OASIS M1342, M1320 and M1334;
• To distinguish wounds healing by primary and secondary intention since the WOCN Society combined criteria for surgical wounds closed by primary and secondary intention;
• How scabs affect the healing status of wounds;
• The impact of interruptions – such as incisional separation or dehiscence – on the status of wounds healing by primary intention;
• To determine the healing status of pressure ulcers treated with a skin graft, those that are suspected deep tissue injuries (DTI), as well as those that have eschar and slough; and
• What the choices in M1334 (stasis ulcer status) mean.

Bonus: If CMS or WOCN issues any additional updated guidance, it will be discussed during the webinar.

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