Home Health Line
05/07/2026
Industry leaders welcome the possibilities that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to clinical care in the home, but there is real concern that the past exclusion of post-acute care in federal innovation efforts means new resources and federal support will be focused on other settings.
05/07/2026
Open communication about which medications the patient is taking and what they are intended to do can help prevent rehospitalization and other issues down the line.
05/07/2026
Make sure that you are routinely reviewing the OIG exclusion list — including all potential aliases. Federal dollars used to pay staff on the exclusion database, whether or not they directly provide care, could be recouped by CMS with an added penalty fee.
05/07/2026
The hospice industry is quickly approaching the one-year mark of using the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) instrument for quality reporting. As your staff continues to adjust to the new processes, you also need to consider how HOPE will impact operations moving forward.
05/07/2026
A patient is being referred to home health following a traumatic subdural hemorrhage (SDH) for physical therapy and speech therapy and is noted to have associated weakness and aphasia. How should this be coded?
05/07/2026
Agencies nationally continue to show improvement on medication management, according to the latest results on Care Compare.

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