Home Health Line Breaking News
11/24/2025
Providers can expect to see increased scrutiny around billing of single-discipline visit units, as the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) added a new home health-related target to its work plan this month. 
11/24/2025
Four California residents connected to fraudulent hospices were sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution in recent months, according to a press release published by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Nov. 18, 2025. 
11/21/2025
Notably absent: CMS didn’t update the measures Discharge Function Score or the Transfer of Health Information to the Provider. With the Care Compare update, the items are publicly reported as “Not available.”
11/20/2025
Come Jan. 1, any fall or intercepted fall that results in a major injury — regardless of how or when the fall occurred — should be reported as both a fall and a major injury when responding to J1800 (Any Falls Since SOC/ROC) and J1900 (Number of Falls Since SOC/ROC), CMS clarified in the final quarterly OASIS Q&As of the year, released Nov. 20.  
11/18/2025
Agencies will receive a payment adjustment of up to 5% (higher or lower) based on their 2024 performance on key OASIS, claims and HHCAHPS survey measures.
11/17/2025
Home health agencies that educate aides on caring for patients with heart failure could reduce the number of preventable 911 calls that these employees make, according to a study published in the JAMA Network Open on Nov. 10, 2025.   
11/14/2025
Some providers may have mistakenly tagged the CERT Review Contractor phone number as SPAM or have otherwise blocked it.
11/11/2025
Congress is advancing a continuing resolution that could end the longest government shutdown on record, which started on Oct. 1, 2025, in turn easing burdens that post-acute providers have faced over the past month. 
11/10/2025
The latest audit is part of a nationwide series of home health reviews.
11/04/2025
The ratings will use publicly reported Home Health Quality Reporting Program data and HHCAHPS survey scores to determine ratings.

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