OASIS GG Items - Clinical Tip Sheet

Home health agencies spend a lot of time stressing over quality and payer rules, recommendations, and best practices.

In OASIS-E2, the GG items are among the most financially consequential questions on the entire OASIS instrument — and yet they are frequently rushed, misunderstood, or scored from habit rather than clinical observation.

This Tip Sheet focuses on two of the most consequential questions on the OASIS-E2: GG0130 and GG0170. Tips for capturing these accurately according to CMS guidelines are included. Also discussed are the most costly mistakes commonly seen. If you are an RN doing home health assessments, this is for you.

Scoring GG0130 and GG0170 accurately with documented clinical observations is not extra work -- it is the job. And it is the most direct way a home health RN can protect both patient outcomes and agency revenue at the same time — one assessment at a time.

This 6 page Tip Sheet will be invaluable.