Home Health Line Breaking News
10/01/2025
CMS confirmed in a message Oct. 1 to providers and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) that waivers expired for most telehealth services provided to patients in their home. This includes the face-to-face encounters used for home health certification, as well as hospice face-to-face visits at recertification.
09/29/2025
Regulators may soon use more relevant data when developing annual updates to the hospice wage index.
09/28/2025
BAYADA Home Health Care is partnering with the University of Washington to analyze home health care practices, funded by a $310,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
09/23/2025
More claim denials are being overturned in the Review Choice Demonstration model, according to new 2024 data released by CMS.
09/22/2025
The OIG says Texas overpaid 174 hospices because it didn’t have a policy related to calculating and collecting overpayments.
09/22/2025
A dozen defendants face new charges related to a Florida-based fraud scheme that involved selling nursing diplomas and transcripts to people who would go on and take nursing roles in home health and other settings, according to a U.S. Department of Justice release.
09/16/2025
Home health providers are awaiting word from Congress on the fate of key telehealth capabilities ahead of a deadline Sept. 30, 2025.
09/15/2025
The agency operator pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme involving the stealing of personal information from disabled, elderly and unhoused individuals to bill for false home health services.
09/15/2025
A majority of American voters oppose the payment cuts proposed in the 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule, according to a poll commissioned by the National Alliance for Care at Home.  
09/05/2025
Home health care services added 7,600 jobs in the month of August. That’s down from the 13,000 reported in July.

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