Home Health Line
07/24/2025
Make sure your patients and their caregivers understand that your agency won’t tolerate verbal or emotional harassment of staff. Addressing these concerns in your workplace safety policies will help ensure that staff feel safe and ensure compliance with federal requirements if your team initiates a for-cause discharge.
07/24/2025
The national average for "How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu season" was at 67.4% in the July refresh of Care Compare.
07/24/2025
Functional points are going up for lower-body dressing challenges and down for bathing. Take a look at the proposed functional points for 2026 in this tool.
07/18/2025
Make sure your team is familiar with work authorization requirements for new hires. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released an updated version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, on April 2, 2025. The revisions include updates to the form’s language, design and privacy notice.
07/18/2025
A fluid-restricted diet is considered a therapeutic diet for K0520D (Nutritional approaches - therapeutic diet) if the patient’s fluid restriction is prescribed in order to manage a disease or clinical condition, CMS clarified in the recent July quarterly OASIS Q&As. 
07/18/2025
Don’t just focus on field staff and clinicians when targeting burnout. Managers who prioritize emotional and operational support for scheduling staff could boost retention rates and satisfaction for employees in these key roles.
07/18/2025
The most common reason for hospice denials in the first quarter of 2025 was that the claim was not hospice appropriate, according to Palmetto GBA, a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) servicing 16 states. Palmetto released its list of the top 10 hospice medical review denial reasons from January to March 2025 on May 16.
07/18/2025
Agencies may get tripped up when it comes to billing claims for hospice patients enrolled in MA programs.
07/18/2025
It would not be appropriate to assume stage 3a chronic kidney disease (CKD) for a patient with documented stage 3a chronic renal impairment if the provider does not specifically state CKD in the documentation, the Coding Clinic stated in their recent Q2 2025 guidance update.
07/18/2025
With no direct payment tied to the services, telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) are not being used by many home health agencies, according to CMS. The 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HHPPS) proposed rule included usage information for 2024, the first full year this data was collected on claims. 

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