Home Health Line
05/08/2025
Increased compliance scrutiny around your cost reports shows why it’s important to take them seriously. Creating detail-oriented and repeatable processes can help your agency comply with payment requirements and avoid audits. It can even help to boost future home health payment rates. 
05/08/2025
Public reporting on the Discharge Function Score has been updated for the first time after an initial release in January.
05/01/2025
Responses to the J0150-J0530 (Pain interview) should be based upon the first complete pain interview conducted within the assessment timeframe, rather than a later assessment that might capture a change in condition.
05/01/2025
Keep the lines of communication open with patients after discharge from home health to improve your score with the Discharge to Community measure.
05/01/2025
When working with dementia patients, it’s important to look for signs of stress or burnout among their caregivers. Agencies that identify and address these concerns could help ensure compliance with the plan of care and improve quality of life for both caregivers and patients.
05/01/2025
For the first time since October 2014, CMS released an updated list of the invalid principal diagnosis codes for Medicare beneficiaries receiving hospice care.
05/01/2025
Caregivers of patients with dementia rarely utilize additional services and supports like training and respite care.
04/24/2025
Prepare now for the implementation of the HOPE tool this fall. This promises to complicate hospice staffing and workflows, and agencies that fail to submit the relevant data could face a financial penalty.
04/24/2025
Hospice providers will see a slight increase in payments for each level of care in fiscal year 2026.
04/24/2025
CMS will be transitioning hospices to iQIES to upload HOPE data, presenting an additional challenge for some providers.

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