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Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy Workshop – October 2024

Two full days of OASIS-E data collection rule and guidance training, with an optional certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical Exam Administration.

Experience OASIS training in an immersive and engaging atmosphere based on the most current CMS guidance available. This workshop provides the nation’s best education for learning and refining your OASIS coding knowledge, with focus on the new OASIS-E items and evolving guidance. This workshop is developed, continually updated, and presented by the OASIS Answers’ Blueprint Team. The training is targeted to field clinicians, clinical supervisors, OASIS educators and reviewers/auditors, quality improvement staff, and those preparing for the COS-C Exam.

Join the comprehensive and nationally acclaimed two-day Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy workshop and learn to confidently teach, audit and collect OASIS-E items accurately. Our instructors use their many years and varied home healthcare experiences to guide the attendees through reliable patient scenarios that illustrate and reinforce pertinent OASIS coding concepts. Through large and small group problem-solving discussions, attendees will apply coding instructions to more than 50 application scenarios, solidifying mastery of concepts and providing excellent preparation for the open-book COS-C Exam.

Workshop educational objectives include:

• Selecting accurate OASIS responses based on patient-based scenarios
• Increasing accuracy of OASIS data, resulting in valid quality measurement and payment
• Increasing compliance with CMS expectations and coding guidance

Rather than provide opinions, assumptions, or unfounded interpretations, the Blueprint presenters model reliance on CMS guidance documents and provide strategies to boost confidence and performance in utilizing practical strategies to achieve OASIS accuracy.

Location

Iowa Health Care Association
1775 90th St.
West Des Moines, IA

Workshop Schedule

October 21 – 22, 2024

  7:30 a.m.     Registration/Check-In
  8:00 a.m.     Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy Workshop
 11:45 a.m.     Lunch (provided)
 12:15 a.m.     Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy Workshop
  4:00 a.m.     Adjourn

Continuing Education Credit

This conference meets the State of Iowa’s dementia specific criteria for 14.0 contact hours for the following disciplines: 

• Social Services
• Nurses (IBON Provider #166)

Registration Fees

Members: $595 per person
Non-Members: $1190 per person

COS-C Exam Information

Secure a spot to take the exam by registering at least one week prior to the workshop. Onsite exam registration may not be available. 

The Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical (COS-C) Exam is a voluntary certificate examination for those interested in demonstrating and establishing their expertise and commitment to OASIS data accuracy. Administered the day following the Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy training, the scope of the COS-C exam is similar to the Blueprint workshop agenda, covering current CMS OASIS data collection rules and guidance related to OASIS time points, regulations, patient populations and OASIS item specific scoring.

Candidates who successfully pass the examination are awarded the COS-C designation.

Call OASIS Answers, Inc. at (425) 868-2304 or visit www.oasisanswers.com to learn more or to register for the COS-C examination. 

Exam Registration Fee

Initial Exam: $250
Renewal Exam: $200

Exam Schedule

October 23, 2024

   8:15 a.m.      Registration/Check-In
  8:45 a.m.      Must be seated
  9:00 a.m.      Exam Time Starts
 11:30 a.m.      Exam Time Ends

Please Note

Registration and payment for the Blueprint for OASIS Accuracy workshop is through IHCA.

Registration and payment for the COS-C exam is through OASIS Answers at oasisanswers.com

Discounted Hotel Information

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Instructors

Megan Bernier, MSPT, COS-C,is a physical therapist with a Masters in Physical Therapy. She has worked in the home health industry since 2010 as a field clinician, as well as in supervisory and administrative positions supporting home health quality improvement, regulatory compliance, clinical documentation, and operations. Megan currently supports OASIS Answers’ post-acute care work with provider education, guidance manual work, and CMS Help Desks support that provides guidance on data collection of OASIS, the MDS, the IRF-PAI, and the LTCH CARE Data Set. She has a passion and appreciation for the critical need for OASIS accuracy and is a knowledgeable and passionate national OASIS educator. Megan holds the Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical (COS-C) designation and serves as a Post-Acute Care Clinical Manager with OASIS Answers, Inc.

Lori Marmon, PT, MBA, COS-C, Clinical Consultant, Oasis Answers, Inc. Lori is a physical therapist with a master’s in business administration. She has been practicing for 25 years with experience initially in the outpatient setting and then in-home care since 2009. Lori’s experience includes positions as a field clinician, quality educator, and clinical manager. In focusing on high-quality outcomes and performance improvement, Lori’s work emphasizes the critical need for OASIS accuracy in measuring and achieving clinical success. Lori currently supports OAI’s CMS contract work related to OASIS data collection guidance and serves on OAI’s Blueprint Presenter Team. Lori holds the Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical (COS-C) designation and is a Clinical Consultant with OASIS Answers, Inc.