Home Health Line
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.
08/06/2026
Industry leaders say an underwhelming payment increase for hospices doesn’t reflect the true cost of delivering care, complicating provider efforts as more spending is needed around operations and compliance. 
08/06/2026
If a patient’s height and/or weight falls outside of the current technical submission specification parameters, agencies should enter the minimum or maximum value for height and weight.
08/06/2026
To ensure compliance, patient safety and workflow efficiency, agencies should provide staff with clear guidelines around how to use AI tools.
08/06/2026
This is part of a series of one-page tools sharing expert tips and CMS instructions to help address challenges clinicians face with accurate scoring for the Discharge Function measures.
08/06/2026
Few understand how the outlier provision is funded, how Medicare estimates the cost of care or why those distinctions can have a meaningful impact on their agency.
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.

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