Regulatory Compliance
04/02/2071
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was declared a national emergency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is implementing a new diagnosis code U07.1 (COVID-19) into the ICD-10-CM code set.
04/02/2071
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was declared a national emergency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is implementing a new diagnosis code U07.1 (COVID-19) into the ICD-10-CM code set.
05/22/2026
Federal regulators continue to signal that delayed patient access to medical records is one of the most visible and enforceable areas of HIPAA compliance.
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.
05/07/2026
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
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?
04/30/2026
Make sure you have clear policies around patient requests for certain types of clinicians and staff, as well as policies around retaliation, after an EEOC lawsuit was announced earlier this year.
04/30/2026
Agency leaders face mounting pressure from multiple directions. Regulators are increasingly less interested in written policies or committee documentation and far more focused on whether organizations can prove that standards are executed reliably, day in and day out.
04/09/2026
Create strong, written guidelines for staff to address recurring delays related to unsigned physician orders. Without timely signed orders, providers will run into operational bottlenecks and gaps in care that could impact compliance and reimbursement.
04/09/2026
The CDC has clarified that you only need to use I11 (Hypertensive heart disease) once, even when the patient has more than one heart condition. 

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