OASIS · CMS Q&As
M1630: CMS OASIS Q&As
1 question CMS has answered, quoted whole from the CMS OASIS Q&As.
CMS OASIS Q&As · March 2026
M1630 on the OASIS item lookup
M1630 Q123Category 4b - OASIS Data Items
M1630. If a patient with a bowel ostomy was hospitalized with diarrhea in the past 14 days, does one mark Response 2 to M1630 - Ostomy for Bowel Elimination?
Response 2 is the appropriate response to mark for M1630 - Ostomy for Bowel Elimination in this situation. By description of the purpose of the hospitalization, the ostomy was related to the inpatient stay.
[Q&A EDITED; 05/22; EDITED & M number updated 09/09]
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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