Home Health Line Breaking News
05/21/2025
Twenty-four states are at a critical or high risk of experiencing an unpaid family caregiving emergency, according to a study published by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health on May 20. 
05/20/2025
Experts stress that agencies should have a point person responsible for receiving and responding timely to additional documentation requests.
05/20/2025
The guidance states that a community provider can perform the face-to-face encounter, even if they are not the certifying provider.
05/19/2025
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into the UnitedHealth Group for possible fraud related to its Medicare Advantage (MA) practices, according to an article published by the Wall Street Journal on May 14.
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.

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