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Ep.3: How to Prepare Your Staff For OASIS-E Upgrades

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So the Oasis is the data tracker for cms that every patient who has Medicare as their primary, primary insurance has to have on file. Don’t panic at Medicare. It’s the improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act. If you teach Amanda Fish, you feed him for the rest of his life. So it’s scary.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

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Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. It was outta my control actually it was the balanced budget act of 1997. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6 billion over five years.