Submitting OASIS to iQIES

All HHA users are expected to submit required OASIS records to CMS via the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES).

As noted above, OASIS data is now submitted using XML files. [...] Only a single assessment may be included in a submission file. If a facility wishes to submit data for multiple assessments during an upload session, separate files must be created for each assessment. These separate files should be zipped together into a single zip file which can then be uploaded. The iQIES system processes only zip files. Any submitted file that is not a zip file will be rejected. All submission files must be 5 MB or less in size.

An OASIS Provider Final Validation Report is automatically generated within 24 hours of successful submission of a file. A file may include one or more records. The Report details the errors, if any, in the submitted records within the file. Go to the Reports section in iQIES to view this report. Each error is noted on the report by its numeric identifier and severity (Fatal or Warning). The report also includes a brief description of the error and notes the submitted item values that triggered the error.

Fatal. Violation of a fatal edit will result in rejection of the submission file. Format and skip pattern edits are always fatal. Most consistency edits are fatal, but some are warnings. Warning. Violation of a warning edit will result in a warning message on the user feedback report. However, a warning will not prevent the submitted assessment data from being accepted and stored in the iQIES system. [...] The fifth section of the report is a Supplemental Information table. This table appears for some items. It contains a list of one or more informative messages that provide background information or additional instructions that are related to the item. These messages are not issued by the iQIES system.

Records with fatal errors will be rejected. All fatal errors in a record must be corrected and resubmitted. All warning errors should be reviewed and corrected if appropriate, to ensure the data uploaded is accurate and complete.