Home Health Line
08/06/2026
The number of patients experiencing one or more falls with major injury increased slightly in the latest results on Care Compare.
07/30/2026
Recent CMS guidance stresses that palliative care is already allowed under the home health benefit, but some agencies don’t have the infrastructure to support a new type of care.
07/30/2026
Experts note that auditors are paying close attention to which hospice patients have displayed a decline before admission and are poised to cut reimbursement off from agencies whose patients are found to be ineligible.
07/30/2026
CMS has issued an update for its survey guidance around home health agencies, adding details surveyors should look for in your acceptance-to-service policy. The changes were effective immediately.
07/30/2026
Spending before your margins have pooled can create a chain reaction that ends in debt, but there are ways to anticipate what your financial needs will be.
07/30/2026
Health care organizations face a growing challenge: protecting patient information in an environment where data moves across medical records systems, third-party vendors, connected medical devices, cloud platforms and a growing number of artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
07/30/2026
National HHCAHPS response rates fell year-over-year from 23% to 22%.
07/23/2026
Industry experts were happy to see Endocrine 3 (Type 1, Type 2 and other specified diabetes) proposed to be added back to the low comorbidity subgroup list next year.
07/23/2026
Focus documentation on the patient’s condition or care at recertification to avoid the eye of medical reviewers already skeptical of subsequent periods. Every claim is under close scrutiny these days, but auditors are focusing more attention on longer lengths of stay.
07/23/2026
Get ready for a revised accreditation process, including changes to when your agency can work with its accrediting organization (AO) to conduct a mock survey. Agency leaders should revisit survey standards and regulatory language to avoid getting caught off guard by the changes when a surveyor arrives unexpectedly.

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