Home Health Line Breaking News
07/29/2025
Agencies are getting a little more insight into how MACs will be enforcing changes to face-to-face encounter requirements for community referrals,
07/28/2025
CMS revoked 122 hospices’ Medicare enrollment between July 2023 and June 2025, according to a fact sheet that CMS released in July. 
07/28/2025
OIG had alleged that the excluded individual, who worked as a nurse and case manager, provided services that were billed to federal health care programs.
07/21/2025
Hospice providers can now access five pre-recorded online training courses about new and updated items in the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool, which will be implemented on Oct. 1, 2025.  
07/21/2025
The national average for the Discharge Function Score climbed to 68.62% — a significant jump from 67.26% reported in April and 67.15% reported in January.
07/18/2025
The agency is accused of billing for the more expensive home health aide services instead of non-skilled care.
07/11/2025
Two California residents have pled guilty in relation to a hospice fraud case that cost Medicare around $16 million, according to a press release published by the Department of Justice on July 8.  
07/11/2025
This preview report includes the annual update of claims-based measures that are only released in the fall.
07/10/2025
Just weeks after alerting providers to a scam related to fraudulent record requests, CMS has updated its warning to note that these phishing attacks are arriving via fax and email.
07/08/2025
Total jobs in home health care services remain at the lowest point since October 2024.

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