Home Health Line
10/01/2026
Make sure you are providing the hospice election statement addendum to all patients, as new mandatory requirements — under a tight timeline — can now impact your payment.
10/01/2026
Don’t just focus on educating clinical staff when preparing for increased survey scrutiny around your agency’s acceptance-to-service policy. Quality assurance and marketing staff also have an important role to play in making sure your agency’s policy doesn't leave you open to survey citations. 
10/01/2026
Implementing clinical pathways for commonly seen diagnoses can help with ensuring that evidence-based interventions are delivered at the appropriate times throughout the episode and help to strengthen patient outcomes.
10/01/2026
Use this tool as a reference guide for what should be considered and included when creating a pathway for joint replacement aftercare patients.
10/01/2026
Providers can find compliance warning signs well ahead of medical review by looking in one particular corner of revenue cycle operations: payer denials.
10/01/2026
Home health use rates were lower among Medicare Advantage patients than traditional Medicare patients in 2023.
09/24/2026
More agencies and coders are utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), but the experience has drawn mixed reactions, according to the 125 respondents to DecisionHealth’s 2026 Home Health Coders’ Productivity Survey. 
09/24/2026
Agencies are getting dinged on survey citations related to emergency preparedness, highlighting that providers need to consider how they would respond to emergency experiences that may not usually be expected in their region.
09/24/2026
Actual survey findings can help you identify trouble spots in your own survey preparedness. Here are the regulations and survey guidance for emergency plan testing, as well as actual 2026 survey citations you can use to improve your policies.
09/24/2026
Encourage your staff to consider the underlying cause of malnutrition, including what sudden or ongoing weight loss may mean about a patient’s disease progression. Support for these patients may lead to a stronger care plan and improved quality outcomes.

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