OASIS · CMS Q&As
M2410: CMS OASIS Q&As
1 question CMS has answered, quoted whole from the CMS OASIS Q&As.
M2410. A patient receiving skilled nursing care from an HHA under Medicare is periodically placed in a local hospital under a private pay arrangement for family respite. The hospital describes this bed as a purely private arrangement to house a person with no skilled services. This hospital has acute care, swing bed, and nursing care units. The unit where the patient stays is not Medicare certified. Should the agency do a Transfer and Resumption of Care OASIS? How should the agency respond to M2410 - To Which Inpatient Facility?
Yes, if the patient was admitted to an inpatient facility, the agency will need to contact the inpatient facility to verify the response to M2410. If the patient is using a hospital bed, Response 1 applies; if the patient is using a nursing home bed, Response 3 applies. If the patient is using a swing-bed it is necessary to determine whether the patient was occupying a designated hospital bed (Response 1 would apply) or a nursing home bed (Response 3 would apply). The hospital utilization department should be able to advise the agency of the type of bed and services the patient utilized.
[Q&A EDITED 10/23; EDITED 05/22; ADDED 06/05; M number updated 09/09]
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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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