Home Health Line
08/06/2026
If a patient’s height and/or weight falls outside of the current technical submission specification parameters, agencies should enter the minimum or maximum value for height and weight.
08/06/2026
To ensure compliance, patient safety and workflow efficiency, agencies should provide staff with clear guidelines around how to use AI tools.
08/06/2026
This is part of a series of one-page tools sharing expert tips and CMS instructions to help address challenges clinicians face with accurate scoring for the Discharge Function measures.
08/06/2026
Few understand how the outlier provision is funded, how Medicare estimates the cost of care or why those distinctions can have a meaningful impact on their agency.
08/06/2026
The number of patients experiencing one or more falls with major injury increased slightly in the latest results on Care Compare.
07/30/2026
Recent CMS guidance stresses that palliative care is already allowed under the home health benefit, but some agencies don’t have the infrastructure to support a new type of care.
07/30/2026
Experts note that auditors are paying close attention to which hospice patients have displayed a decline before admission and are poised to cut reimbursement off from agencies whose patients are found to be ineligible.
07/30/2026
CMS has issued an update for its survey guidance around home health agencies, adding details surveyors should look for in your acceptance-to-service policy. The changes were effective immediately.
07/30/2026
Spending before your margins have pooled can create a chain reaction that ends in debt, but there are ways to anticipate what your financial needs will be.
07/30/2026
Health care organizations face a growing challenge: protecting patient information in an environment where data moves across medical records systems, third-party vendors, connected medical devices, cloud platforms and a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

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