Home Health Line Breaking News
04/28/2026
OASIS-based measures include results from July 2024 to June 2025, while HHCAHPS scores reflect surveys from October 2024 to September 2025.
04/27/2026
Hospice providers can now refresh their knowledge of billing for a Service Intensity Add-On (SIA), or additional registered nurse and social worker visits scheduled during the last seven days of a patient’s life, through an explanatory video released by CMS on April 16, 2026. 
04/21/2026
Changes effective Jan. 1, 2026, expanded the collection points used to determine this score after an Office of Inspector General report found home health agencies underreporting FMI incidents.
04/21/2026
CMS provided clarifications in response to 14 questions that also addressed using AI software to populate OASIS items, as well as updated guidance around reporting major falls.
04/20/2026
CMS is expanding its Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model and plans to make the updated payment model mandatory for hospitals, starting Oct. 1, 2027. 
04/17/2026
Don’t wait to address problems with your OASIS-E2 implementation. Correcting course now will keep issues from ballooning into larger problems that are more difficult to fix over time.
04/17/2026
ECRI has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report to outline the most pressing sources of danger stemming from the use of medical devices and systems.
04/13/2026
Proposed changes to the ICD-10-CM code set include new codes for personal history of clostridiodes difficile (C. diff) infection, a low body mass index and more.
04/13/2026
CMS has developed five self-paced online trainings to help hospices navigate new and updated items on the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2025. 
04/10/2026
It was a surprising bounce back for many sectors after disappointing jobs numbers in February, when home health care services added just 700 jobs.

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