Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025

Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025

$85.00

Authored by CEO, Melinda A. Gaboury, this 2025 updated OASIS guide provides a quick reference for completing the OASIS-E1, with tips and callouts on new items, including which items affect HHRG and payment, 5-star rating, and value-based purchasing reimbursement. This reference explains how OASIS items fit into various assessments and provides troubleshooting tips to avoid incorrect payments, denials, and fines.

**This is a pre-sale of Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025, with an anticipated release in late November/early December.  With your pre-purchase of the Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025, you’ll reserve your copy of the guide, and it will be shipped to you when it is released in the coming weeks.

Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025, provides guidance on completing the OASIS assessment, including all new and revised OASIS-E1 items, and updated guidance effective January 1, 2025.

Get up to speed on the latest changes to the OASIS assessment, while also reinforcing core competencies so you can accurately and efficiently complete every assessment.

Written by Melinda Gaboury, COS-C, this one-of-a-kind resource will ensure you accurately and efficiently complete every OASIS assessment.

This updated guide provides a quick reference for filling out the OASIS-E1, with tips and callouts on key items, including which items affect HHRG and payment, 5-star rating, and value-based purchasing reimbursement. This reference explains how OASIS items fit into various assessments and provides troubleshooting tips to avoid incorrect payments, denials, and fines.

Purchase this vital resource and get:

  • UPDATED! Official guidance and best practices on how to complete the OASIS-E1 items that have caused the most confusion
  • Instructions and tips for completing all individual OASIS items
  • Information on who is allowed to collect the OASIS and when, so you ensure compliance
  • Details on how OASIS works in the home health PDGM payment system
  • A deep dive into the specific OASIS items that impact star ratings and will be used in value-based purchasing calculations

Dimensions: 8.5”x11”
ISBN: 978-1-963512-19-9

**This is a pre-sale of Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025, with an anticipated release in late November/early December.  With your pre-purchase of the Home Health Guide to OASIS: A Reference for Field Staff, 2025, you’ll reserve your copy of the guide, and it will be shipped to you when it is released in the coming weeks.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: What is OASIS?
  • Chapter 2: Incorporating & Reporting OASIS
  • Chapter 3: Home Health PDGM and OASIS
  • Chapter 4: Administrative Information: Patient Tracking
  • Chapter 5: Start-of-Care and Resumption-of-Care Assessments
  • Chapter 6: Follow-Up and Other Follow-Up Assessments
  • Chapter 7: Transfer and Discharge Assessments
  • Chapter 8: General Instructions for Completion of the OASIS Items

About the Author

Melinda A. Gaboury, CEO

Melinda A. Gaboury, COS-C, with more than 33 years in home care, has over 23 years of executive speaking and educating experience, including extensive day-to-day interaction with home care and hospice professionals.  She routinely conducts Home Care and Hospice Reimbursement Workshops and speaks at state association meetings throughout the country.  Melinda has profound experience in Medicare PDGM training, billing, collections, case-mix calculations, chart reviews and due diligence.  Medicare Review appeals with all Medicare MACs have become the forefront of Melinda’s current impact on the industry. Melinda is currently Chair of The Alliance/HHFMA Advisory Board and Work Group, serves on the Home Care Association of Florida Board of Directors, and the Tennessee Association for Home Care Board of Directors. Melinda is also the author of the Home Health OASIS Guide to OASIS-E1 and Home Health Billing Answers, 2025.