Outcomes, OASIS and Your Agency's Star Ratings: Guidance for Home Health

In homecare, OASIS determines reimbursement, drives care plans and leads to overall patient outcomes, which impacts your Star Ratings, making this a vital part of what you do. These outcomes are reported in Casper reports and Home Health compare. To improve your outcomes and 5 Star rating, you need to be able to measure and analyze these reports to drive change.

Meet Sharon Litwin

Sharon M. Litwin, RN, BSHS, MHA, HCS-D, is Founder and Senior Managing Partner, 5 Star Consultants, LLC, a national consulting and coding firm specializing in homecare and hospice services since 2003. Sharon is a former ACHC and CHAP surveyor, performing Medicare deemed surveys for ten years. Sharon has been in the homecare and hospice industry for over 30 years. In her consulting firm, Sharon assists homecare and hospice agencies in providing quality, meeting regulations, ICD-10 coding, OASIS, increasing outcomes and Star Ratings, and having continued survey readiness.