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J1800: CMS OASIS Q&As
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J1800. Regarding J1800 - Any Falls Since SOC/ROC, if a patient’s wheelchair or other sitting surface breaks while he/she is seated in it, and the patient falls to the floor, do we score this as a fall in J1800?
J1800 - Any Falls Since SOC/ROC identifies if the patient had any witnessed or unwitnessed falls since the most recent SOC/ROC. From the OASIS-E Guidance Manual, “fall” is defined as: “Unintentional change in position coming to rest on the ground, floor, or onto the next lower surface (such as a bed or chair)”. In the situation that you describe, this would be coded as a fall.
[Q&A ADDED AND EDITED 05/22; Previously CMS Qtrly Q&A 04/19 Q15]
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Source: CMS OASIS Q&As: Category 4 - OASIS Data Set: Forms and Items (March 2026), text extracted from the PDF with pdftotext, retrieved 2026-10-09. Works of the US Government are in the public domain.
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