B1300: CMS OASIS Q&As

The intent of B1300 - Health Literacy is to identify how often the patient needs to have someone help them when they read instructions, pamphlets, or other written material from their doctor or pharmacy. The assessing clinician must consider each patient’s unique circumstances and use clinical judgment to determine how health literacy applies for each individual patient at both the Start of Care/Resumption of Care and Discharge time points. It is possible that the SOC/ROC and discharge coding are the same.