Home Health Line Breaking News
05/12/2025
The California home health agency owner pleaded guilty to health care fraud, identity theft and money laundering, accordign to the Department of Justice.
05/12/2025
Plans by House Republicans to cut $715 billion in Medicaid spending over ten years has raised concerns among the industry’s top advocates in Washington.
05/09/2025
A system error following a recent change request is causing certain home health claims to be erroneously returned to providers.
05/06/2025
“The key to Medicare coverage is for the documentation to ‘paint a picture’ of the beneficiary’s overall medical condition indicating the need for skilled service,” Palmetto notes.
05/05/2025
Home health providers may not be fully clued in on their patients’ dementia diagnoses, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on May 2.  
05/05/2025
Just 100 jobs were added in home health care services in April.
04/28/2025
Hospice providers can now access updated versions of the final materials needed for their transition to the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool, which will replace the Hospice Item Set (HIS) this fall.  
04/25/2025
New Hampshire officials alleged the provider failed to change policies to improve documentation after a previous audit resulted in a $28,000 repayment.
04/23/2025
New data includes HHCAHPS results from October 2023 to September 2024 and OASIS data from July 2023 through June 2024.
04/21/2025
The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is turning its attention to new hospice providers under Medicare, according to an April update to the work plan. 

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