Quality Outcomes
02/05/2026
Creating and documenting a plan for each patient’s next visit is essential to ensuring continuity of care and meeting compliance standards. Clinicians may assume they’ll be the next provider to see the patient, but they should still include key details in their documentation in case others need to fill in for them. 
01/28/2026
Get patients and caregivers involved in tracking progress throughout each home health episode. Their insights can help identify problem areas in the care plan that need to be addressed to avoid compliance headaches, as well as the kind of setbacks that may lead to hospitalization or poor patient survey scores.
01/08/2026
Consider a patient’s entire situation when providing care related to a wound. While the wound may be your priority, there are other key details that, when documented, will help in providing quality care and protecting your payment.  
01/08/2026
Leverage the in-home observations that aides make during their visits to avoid emergency room visits. Targeting these issues may seem daunting, but even simple solutions like improved communication between staff can help agencies avoid costly impacts on patient outcomes and quality reporting. 
12/25/2025
Include a patient's other providers in your discharge planning process to move the needle on the stubborn Medicare spending per beneficiary measure that will be more important than ever beginning in 2026.
12/19/2025
Prepare for significant adjustments to your agency’s publicly reported scores around major falls as CMS plans to incorporate more data into the Falls with Major Injury quality measure.
12/19/2025
As the Trump administration promises to pave the way to making weight loss drugs more affordable and accessible to Medicare patients, your agency may be seeing more of these medications in the future. 
12/19/2025
This tool breaks down the new steps that will be added in determining your agency's score on Falls with Major Injury (FMI).
12/04/2025
Updates finalized in the home health payment rule include three new OASIS measures and the addition of the claims-based Medicare spending per beneficiary item.
12/04/2025
Responses to the updated survey won’t be publicly reported until Oct. 2027, but CMS will start using the responses from April 2026 when calculating star ratings. That makes staff understanding of the HHCAHPS changes critical from day one.

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