# Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Comprehensive Assessment and Use of the OASIS as Part of the Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 1999-01-25 · Effective 1999-02-24 · 64 FR 3764
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-1449
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 3764
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 484
- **Publication date:** 1999-01-25
- **Effective date:** 1999-02-24
- **HHS docket:** HCFA-3007-F
## Abstract

This final rule revises the existing conditions of participation that home health agencies (HHAs) must meet to participate in the Medicare program. Specifically, this rule requires that each patient receive from the HHA a patient-specific, comprehensive assessment that identifies the patient's need for home care and that meets the patient's medical, nursing, rehabilitative, social and discharge planning needs. In addition, this final rule requires that as part of the comprehensive assessment, HHAs use a standard core assessment data set, the ``Outcome and Assessment Information Set'' (OASIS) when evaluating adult, non-maternity patients. These changes are an integral part of the Administration's efforts to achieve broad- based improvements in the quality of care furnished through Federal programs and in the measurement of that care.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/01/25/99-1449/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-comprehensive-assessment-and-use-of-the-oasis-as-part-of-the)
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