OASIS · CMS Q&As
M2420: CMS OASIS Q&As
1 question CMS has answered, quoted whole from the CMS OASIS Q&As.
CMS OASIS Q&As · March 2026
M2420 on the OASIS item lookup
M2420 Q189.3Category 4b - OASIS Data Items
M2420. Our agency is discharging a patient who will be admitted to a noninstitutional hospice. After completing the discharge OASIS (M2420 - Discharge Disposition coded with response 3 - Patient transferred to a non-institutional hospice), the agency learns that the patient expired prior to being admitted to hospice. Does the clinician need to correct the M2420 code to response 1 - Patient remained in community (without formal assistive services)?
Code M2420 - Discharge Disposition based on the information known at discharge regarding where the patient will reside, and the services the patient is expected to receive after discharge from the home health agency.
[Q&A ADDED 05/22; Previously CMS Qtrly Q&A 01/22 Q11]
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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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