Home Health Line Breaking News
07/28/2025
CMS revoked 122 hospices’ Medicare enrollment between July 2023 and June 2025, according to a fact sheet that CMS released in July. 
07/28/2025
OIG had alleged that the excluded individual, who worked as a nurse and case manager, provided services that were billed to federal health care programs.
07/21/2025
Hospice providers can now access five pre-recorded online training courses about new and updated items in the Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool, which will be implemented on Oct. 1, 2025.  
07/21/2025
The national average for the Discharge Function Score climbed to 68.62% — a significant jump from 67.26% reported in April and 67.15% reported in January.
07/18/2025
The agency is accused of billing for the more expensive home health aide services instead of non-skilled care.
07/11/2025
Two California residents have pled guilty in relation to a hospice fraud case that cost Medicare around $16 million, according to a press release published by the Department of Justice on July 8.  
07/11/2025
This preview report includes the annual update of claims-based measures that are only released in the fall.
07/10/2025
Just weeks after alerting providers to a scam related to fraudulent record requests, CMS has updated its warning to note that these phishing attacks are arriving via fax and email.
07/08/2025
Total jobs in home health care services remain at the lowest point since October 2024.
07/08/2025
Surveyors continue to see clinicians failing to perform hand hygiene before and after patient contact or after touching potentially contaminated surfaces, according to the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).

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