CMS Publishes Home Health, Star Rating Care Compare January 2025 Preview Reports

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published preview reports for the January 2025 Care Compare updates in iQIES for home health providers. For the January 2025 refresh, Home Health (HH) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) measures have been updated. Addition, three new OASIS measures have been added to public reporting for the January 2025 refresh, including the Discharge Function score which be part of the new scoring for home health value based purchasing in 2025:

• Transfer of Health Information to the Patient
• Transfer of Health Information to the Provider
• Discharge Function Score

Finally, the January 2025 refresh also includes the removal of one OASIS measure from public reporting:

• Application of Percent of Long Term Care Hospital Patients with an Admission and Discharge Functional Assessment and a Care Plan that Addresses Function Process.