Home Health Line
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. 
02/05/2026
Check in with your staff before a visit from surveyors. Even if the survey is routine and expected, making sure that your staff feel prepared and comfortable with observation can help prevent easily avoidable mistakes.
02/05/2026
This snapshot shows the top 10 questionable encounter codes which appeared on OASIS and claims for Medicare home health payment periods that began in 2025.
01/28/2026
Use the structured model of a clinical pathway to help diabetic patients better manage their disease and avoid emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
01/28/2026
Here is a walkthrough of what a clinical pathway for a diabetic patient should look like.
01/28/2026
Prepare for potential government investigations or raids so that your staff members are capable of continuing operations in the face of these unusual circumstances.
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.
01/28/2026
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized health care operations, offering speed and efficiency in tasks like clinical documentation review and insurance appeals. However, in a field where precision drives reimbursement and compliance, speed without accuracy can turn efficiency into liability. As organizations embrace automation, understanding its limitations becomes critical.
01/28/2026
Home health transactions in the final three months of 2025 were down as the industry held its breath for the CMS payment update that came in early December.
01/23/2026
Investigators will be analyzing a subset of agency claims that received increased payments for select comorbidities and assessing whether claims from outside of the agency identified the same condition.

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