Home Health Line
05/14/2026
Train your clinicians to dig deeper when a fall is reported during a home health stay. Your publicly reported results on Care Compare — and ultimately your bottom line — are directly impacted by how clinicians are addressing fall risks and documenting the circumstances when a fall occurs.
05/14/2026
Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, CMS rolled out significant changes to how it is measuring falls during a home health stay. Use this fact sheet to help educate your team on what they need to know as what counts as a fall and a fall with major injury shifts.
05/14/2026
With long lengths of stay as a top target for medical review, agencies that don’t have strong documentation to show what changes they expect from the patient and why they’re eligible for the home health benefit may get caught in the crosshairs.
05/14/2026
Get feedback from your hospice staff about how your operations could be impacted by potential changes detailed in the fiscal year 2027 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update proposed rule. CMS may use the feedback from this commenting period to inform future rulemaking, and providers that comment on key topics from the rule could help shape new regulations, incentives, and quality metrics.
05/14/2026
Overlapping home health periods are driving many home health claims errors, according to the latest report from Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS.
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?

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