Home Health Line
06/18/2026
Failure to justify skilled nursing was the top issue under Target Probe and Educate (TPE) reviews for the first three months of 2026.
06/11/2026
Stress your agency’s commitment to both staff and patients in light of CMS’ six-month enrollment moratoria for home health and hospice providers.
06/11/2026
Expect more home health and hospice audits, new regulatory requirements and more attention on Medicaid providers on the state level.
06/11/2026
With one shot each year at a payment update, the proposed 2.4% payment increase fails to meet the rising costs of providing care, according to stakeholders who pointed to wage pressures and climbing gas costs.
06/11/2026
Schedule your first therapy visit as soon as possible when working with short-stay, high-intensity patients like those who recently underwent a joint replacement.
06/11/2026
Code hypertension secondary for a patient with stage 3b chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension associated with diabetes mellitus, when the CKD has not been specifically linked to either condition.
06/11/2026
If your results on M1860 (Ambulation/Locomotion) haven’t improved by nearly 2.4 percentage points in the past 24 months, you may be falling behind other agencies.
06/04/2026
Give your online ads an instant boost by letting an AI platform assist you with creative ad copy that will motivate the right applicants without you having to spend extra money for premium ad placement. 
06/04/2026
Track your success when keeping joint replacement patients out of the hospital and emergency department, and promote those wins to your referral partners. CMS’ newest innovation model puts the hospital on the hook for costs associated with these patients long after they’ve walked out the door, putting new importance on a successful transition to home health.
06/04/2026
Complete a thorough analysis of every live discharge to determine the reasoning and whether it could have been prevented. With CMS’ scrutiny around hospice fraud expected to intensify in the coming months, tracking and trending this metric is one way to get ahead of any potential concerns — including payment suspensions.

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