GG Mastery: Crash Course for Boosting Your Discharge Function Score

Webinar | November 13 | 60 Minutes | 1.0 Contact Hour | $59

Section GG has quickly become one of the most critical pieces of OASIS—driving the new Discharge Function Score, which now accounts for 20% of your agency’s Total Performance Score (TPS) under HHVBP. Yet many organizations are still behind in staff education, leading to inaccurate scoring and lost opportunities for improvement.

This one-hour intensive session provides a practical crash course on the GG items. Participants will learn the critical differences between GG and the M1800s (where scoring scales are reversed), explore how CMS calculates the Discharge Function Score and understand why it is based on meeting or exceeding expected outcomes rather than simple improvement. Through case-based examples, we’ll highlight common scoring pitfalls and share strategies to ensure OASIS documentation paints an accurate picture of patient status, establishes correct expectations and drives stronger HHVBP results.

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate between Section GG scoring and M1800 functional item scoring, including the reversed scale values.
2. Explain how CMS calculates the Discharge Function Score and its impact on the Total Performance Score (TPS) under HHVBP.
3. Identify common documentation and scoring errors in Section GG that negatively affect outcomes and reimbursement.
4. Apply strategies for accurate OASIS documentation and GG scoring to set appropriate patient expectations and improve agency performance.

*Recording included with registration