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.
09/03/2026
Use specific examples of how your patient’s condition impacts their ability to leave the home when justifying homebound status in your documentation.
09/03/2026
A conversation on organizational leadership, the metrics that matter most and the quality practices becoming obsolete.
08/27/2026
Make sure you understand the difference between audit types, especially when completed by two different contractors simultaneously. CMS and its contractors are auditing claims for reasons ranging from program integrity to targeted education, and facing two or more additional documentation requests at once can complicate an already-intensive administrative process. 
08/27/2026
The outlier provision was established to help preserve beneficiary access to care by providing additional reimbursement for patient encounters requiring unusually high levels of resources. 
08/20/2026
Prepare your staff for difficult conversations with patients and caregivers about their medical wishes. Having these hard conversations early on in the home health stay protects the patient’s quality of life while boosting their satisfaction with your team’s care.
08/20/2026
Hurdles placed in front of coders as they’re trying to chart can slow reimbursement, making this a key operational and financial issue for agencies.
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.
07/23/2026
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.

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