How effective is your agency when it comes to improving functional outcomes for your patients? Beginning calendar year 2025, home health will have a new quality measure that will report how successful agencies are at achieving an expected level of functional ability at discharge. CMS recognizes that home health care has a positive impact on…
How effective is your agency when it comes to improving functional outcomes for your patients?
Beginning calendar year 2025, home health will have a new quality measure that will report how successful agencies are at achieving an expected level of functional ability at discharge.
CMS recognizes that home health care has a positive impact on improving the functional outcomes of patients. They will use existing OASIS “GG items” to calculate the new Discharge Function Score (DC Function). This new measure replaces the current “Application of percent of patients with an admission and discharge functional assessment and a care plan that addresses function” measure and will decrease the burden on clinicians by eliminating the need to report a discharge goal for GG0130 and GG0170 items. The DC Function score will also replace the Total Normalized Composite (TNC) Self-Care and Mobility measures in HHVBP beginning performance year 2025 and CMS plans to report the DC Function measure on Care Compare with the January 2025 refresh.
For more information: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/hhdischargefunctiontechnicalreport2024.pdf
