Preparing for the Medicare mandated transitions from OASIS-C to OASIS-C1 and the new OASIS Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system has likely been mission critical at your home healthcare agency during the last several months. Ensuring that your agency’s clinicians are educated on the new codes, billers and administrators understand requirements and your software is compliant have been top of mind, as you prepared for the January 1, 2015 effective date.

At Axxess, our goals have been similar. In order to help our client agencies be prepared, we first prepared ourselves. We dedicated time and resources to the transitions, creating an internal team of experts, software developers and customer support staff to ensure everyone at Axxess was positioned to support our client base.

Our team of experts, most of whom have worked in the home health industry for decades, worked diligently to review and understand the new regulations and information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Quality Improvement Evaluation System (QIES).

Throughout the last year, our software developers were dedicated to ensuring all aspects of our AgencyCore software were in sync with OASIS-C1 changes and integrated with the OASIS ASAP system for claims submission. As we updated our software, we tested and retested extensively as part of our rigorous quality assurance process. On January 1 at 12:00 a.m., we were well-prepared to flip the switch in our software to accommodate the OASIS-C1 and the OASIS ASAP system. This seamless transition helped Axxess clients be up and running and compliant instantly.

Part of our framework for OASIS-C1 was creating in-person seminars and online webinars to help healthcare professionals learn about the new system. Our training has been available for months prior to the change over on January 1 and since then thousands of healthcare professionals have participated. We also updated our AgencyCore Online Training Manual to include step by step instruction on submitting claims through the OASIS ASAP portal.

At Axxess we put our customers first in everything we do. Axxess is the key to home health success. The most successful home health organizations choose Axxess. We know that any delays or glitches in these transitions would have negatively affected agencies’ cash flow. We are proud to be a critical partner to our customers to help them improve productivity and comply with regulations, so they may focus more on growing their businesses.

To learn more, see our article: “What You Need to Know about OASIS Submission Using the National OASIS Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) System”