Home Health Line
04/09/2026
Reexamine the relationships you have with other providers, including overlap in staff or ownership. A disclosure requirement that had previously gone unenforced is now causing agencies to lose their Medicare participation because of a link to a hospice or other provider that has faced revocation.
04/09/2026
Create strong, written guidelines for staff to address recurring delays related to unsigned physician orders. Without timely signed orders, providers will run into operational bottlenecks and gaps in care that could impact compliance and reimbursement.
04/09/2026
The CDC has clarified that you only need to use I11 (Hypertensive heart disease) once, even when the patient has more than one heart condition. 
04/09/2026
As AI tools grow in popularity, agency leadership has to determine how to properly govern and validate their use. They must also ensure the tools strengthen documentation integrity rather than undermine compliance.
04/09/2026
CMS is planning an aggregate 2.4% payment update for hospice providers beginning in October 2026, but a provider’s actual rate update will also be impacted by the local community’s wage index.
04/02/2026
CMS should step up on-site visits to verify the legitimacy of hospice and home health providers in California and other fraud hot spots, according to some of the industry’s top advocates.
04/02/2026
Educate sales staff on when it’s time to switch up their strategy with their accounts. Your marketing team may be a little too comfortable with their current sales strategies, so it’s important to remember that these dynamics are always changing.
04/02/2026
Recognize the warning signs for sepsis risk, even when concerns may look like common parts of a patient’s disease progression. Sepsis moves quickly, so clinicians, patients and their caregivers must be prepared for the possibility.
04/02/2026
Providers are being asked to protect patient data in an environment that no longer resembles the one HIPAA was originally designed for. Cybersecurity threats have evolved. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools now touch patient information in ways that bypass traditional medical record controls.
04/02/2026
Hypothyroidism and dementia should be coded as related unless the documentation clearly states the conditions are unrelated, or when another guideline exists that specifically requires a documented linkage between two conditions.

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