Too Much Information? The Impact of OASIS on Access to Home Health Care
May 24, 1999
The latest threat to home health care is a federally required personal assessment of patients. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) requires all home health care agencies that accept Medicare to complete a 19-page survey for each patient -- whether or not that patient is covered by Medicare. The hearing will examine the value of the assessment.
Date: May 24, 1999
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Room: 366 Dirksen
Statements of Committee Members
- Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa
Witness Testimony Panel 1
- Cynthia Kail, M.S.N., R.N., Associate Administrator, Greene County Medical Center, Jefferson, Iowa.
- Kristy Wright , R.N., M.B.A., President/CEO, Visiting Nurses Association, Western Pennsylvania, Butler, Pennsylvania
- James Pyles, Esq., on behalf of the Home Health Services and Staffing Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association, Washington, DC
- Peter Shaughnessy, Ph.D., Director, Center for Health Services Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
- Judith A. Conlin , Ph.D., Director, Iowa Department of Elder Affairs, Des Moines, Iowa
- George Taler, , M.D., President, American Academy of Home Care Physicians, Baltimore, Maryland
- Jeffrey Kang, M.D., Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Health Care Financing Administration, Washington, DC
Hearing Publications
- Committee on Aging Print: 106-7