Expected to Improve: Understanding Your Discharge Function Score

Discharge Function is one of the newer and more complex quality measures in home health. Understanding your score requires more than looking at functional improvement alone—it also means understanding how CMS determines what level of improvement is expected for each patient.

In this educational webinar, Michelle Horner will break down how the Discharge Function measure is calculated, how risk adjustment helps establish expected performance and which OASIS functional items and patient characteristics can influence results.

Michelle will also explore common assessment and documentation challenges and show how patient-level functional data can help agencies look beyond the final score, identify trends and uncover opportunities for more targeted quality improvement.

What You’ll Learn:
- How the Discharge Function measure is calculated
- How risk adjustment determines expected performance
- Which OASIS items and patient characteristics can influence results
- Common assessment and documentation challenges
- How patient-level data can help identify trends and improvement opportunities