Home Health & Hospice Week

IMPACT Act-sparked additions are headed your way soon.

Focus your attention on the OASIS changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has in store for 2019. CMS will add three GG Section items, it explains in a 2019 OASIS Change Table on its OASIS website:

GG0100 Prior Functioning: Everyday Activities (converting over from the current M1900: Prior Function);
GG0110 Prior Device Use; and
GG0130 Self-Care.

CMS will also add two items in Section J: Health Conditions:

J1800. Any Falls Since SOC/ROC, whichever is more recent; and
J1900. Number of Falls since SOC/ROC, whichever is more recent.

While CMS doesn't list GG0170 as a new item in its change table, the GG item is greatly expanded under OASIS-D (see story, this page).

Note: For a free side-by-side comparison of OASIS-C2 and OASIS-D items, email editor Rebecca Johnson with "OASIS-D Comparison" in the subject line; or you can download the comparison table via a zipped file at www.cms.gov/Regulations-andGuidance/Legislation/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAListing-Items/CMS-10545.html.