Home Health Line Breaking News
08/26/2025
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report was paused in late 2023, but the important CMS tool that helps agencies identify billing anomalies is almost ready to return.
08/25/2025
CMS overspent millions of dollars on its Medicare Advantage (MA) hospice carve-out from 2017 to 2019, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open on Aug. 19, 2025.  
08/21/2025
Agencies are getting their first look at projected payment adjustments for 2026 under Home Health Value-Based Purchasing.
08/19/2025
Home health quality reporting may include more falls data if claims-based information is incorporated into the Falls with Major Injury (FMI) quality measure.
08/18/2025
CMS released the updated Home Health Grouper Aug. 18 containing acceptable primary diagnoses and the high and low comorbidity adjustment subgroups for the new FY2026 codes — set to take effect Oct. 1.
08/18/2025
The California Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a new hospice fraud initiative, according to a news release published on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. 
08/12/2025
The volume of home health sales doesn’t match up with the demand seen in the market
08/12/2025
CMS has released the documents associated with high-profile changes plotted for home health quality reporting in spring 2026.
08/11/2025
A California hospice owner has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison and ordered to pay $8 million in restitution after she was convicted of providing illegal kickbacks and defrauding Medicare of over $10 million, according to a United States Attorney’s Office press release published on Aug. 5, 2025.  
08/05/2025
Comprising various types of home-based health care roles, the broad industry sector added an estimated 14,400 jobs in July.

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