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 "title": "AHH Compliance News",
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  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cms-proposes-rule-to-boost-program-integrity-and-expand-home-health-access/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cms-proposes-rule-to-boost-program-integrity-and-expand-home-health-access/",
   "title": "CMS Proposes Rule to Boost Program Integrity and Expand Home Health Access",
   "summary": "CMS has released a proposed rule targeting Medicare fraud, strengthening program integrity safeguards, and expanding access to home health care — changes that could have significant operational and compliance implications for home health agencies.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-18T20:33:12Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-s-first-real-hospice-rulebook-cdph-emergency-regulations/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-s-first-real-hospice-rulebook-cdph-emergency-regulations/",
   "title": "California's first real hospice rulebook: CDPH emergency regulations now in effect",
   "summary": "CDPH's emergency hospice regulations took effect June 22, 2026 — the first comprehensive operational licensing framework California hospices have ever had. They are effective immediately, they carry unannounced-inspection authority, and every California hospice should verify compliance now, not at renewal.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/fy-2027-hospice-proposed-rule-a-2-4-update-and-a-public-score-for-every-hospice/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/fy-2027-hospice-proposed-rule-a-2-4-update-and-a-public-score-for-every-hospice/",
   "title": "FY 2027 Hospice Proposed Rule: a 2.4% update — and a public score for every hospice",
   "summary": "CMS's FY 2027 hospice proposed rule pairs a 2.4% payment update (~$785 million) with something more consequential: the Service and Spending Variation Index, a publicly posted score for every hospice built from nine claims-based metrics. The comment period closed June 1; the final rule typically lands by late July.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/hospice-telehealth-face-to-face-encounters-the-new-restrictions-are/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/hospice-telehealth-face-to-face-encounters-the-new-restrictions-are/",
   "title": "Hospice telehealth face-to-face encounters: the new restrictions are already live",
   "summary": "Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, telehealth face-to-face recertification encounters are prohibited in specific circumstances for encounters on or after January 31, 2026 — and beginning January 1, 2027, any telehealth F2F must carry designated claim modifiers. Two dates, both with claims consequences.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cms-freezes-new-home-health-and-hospice-medicare-enrollment-nationwide/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cms-freezes-new-home-health-and-hospice-medicare-enrollment-nationwide/",
   "title": "CMS freezes new home health and hospice Medicare enrollment nationwide",
   "summary": "Effective May 13, 2026, CMS imposed a six-month nationwide moratorium on new Medicare enrollments for home health agencies and hospices — and on certain majority ownership changes requiring re-enrollment. Currently enrolled providers are unaffected, but the surrounding enforcement posture touches everyone.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cy-2027-home-health-proposed-rule-a-2-4-raise-with-a-3-asterisk/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cy-2027-home-health-proposed-rule-a-2-4-raise-with-a-3-asterisk/",
   "title": "CY 2027 Home Health Proposed Rule: a 2.4% raise with a 3% asterisk",
   "summary": "CMS proposes a 2.4% aggregate payment increase for home health in CY 2027 — the first increase after years of cuts — but pairs it with a 3.0% temporary recoupment adjustment and a major expansion of enrollment-revocation authority. Comments are due by 5 p.m. EDT on August 31, 2026.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/oasis-submission-deadline-would-shrink-from-4-5-months-to-45-days/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/oasis-submission-deadline-would-shrink-from-4-5-months-to-45-days/",
   "title": "OASIS submission deadline would shrink from 4.5 months to 45 days",
   "summary": "Inside the CY 2027 proposed rule is an operational change that will hit daily workflow harder than the payment update: OASIS assessment data submission deadlines would shrink from 4.5 months to 45 days, and QRP reporting would move to a calendar-year basis.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-live-discharge-audits-what-a-qlarant-letter-means-and-who/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-live-discharge-audits-what-a-qlarant-letter-means-and-who/",
   "title": "California live-discharge audits: what a Qlarant letter means and who's exposed",
   "summary": "CMS, through its program-integrity contractor Qlarant, has been auditing California hospices with elevated live-discharge rates — with hundreds of agencies already facing payment suspensions and the audit window (live discharges from January 2025 through March 2026) suggesting further waves. If your live-discharge rate is high, prepare before the letter, not after.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/enrollment-revocations-would-go-retroactive-for-every-medicare/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/enrollment-revocations-would-go-retroactive-for-every-medicare/",
   "title": "Enrollment revocations would go retroactive — for every Medicare provider type",
   "summary": "Tucked into the home health payment rule is a program-integrity package that applies to all Medicare providers and suppliers: every enrollment revocation would become retroactive to the date of noncompliance, and CMS would gain new grounds to deny or revoke enrollment — including trouble in other states' programs.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/oasis-e2-is-live-what-the-april-1-implementation-requires-now/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/oasis-e2-is-live-what-the-april-1-implementation-requires-now/",
   "title": "OASIS-E2 is live: what the April 1 implementation requires now",
   "summary": "OASIS-E2 took effect for home health assessments on April 1, 2026, and CMS has since released the finalized data-collection materials. If your clinicians are still charting from E1 habit — or your vendor shipped the update late — the errors are accruing in submitted data right now.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cdph-now-charges-for-report-of-change-applications/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/cdph-now-charges-for-report-of-change-applications/",
   "title": "CDPH now charges for Report of Change applications",
   "summary": "Under the FY 2025–26 fee schedule, CDPH charges fees for Report of Change applications from home health and hospice agencies — filings that were previously processed without explicit charges. Routine changes like personnel updates now carry a cost, and incomplete submissions risk denial and refiling.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/achc-focus-surveys-accreditation-is-no-longer-a-three-year-event/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/achc-focus-surveys-accreditation-is-no-longer-a-three-year-event/",
   "title": "ACHC focus surveys: accreditation is no longer a three-year event",
   "summary": "ACHC is conducting targeted, one-day focus surveys at selected home health and hospice agencies in states under enhanced CMS oversight — between regular reaccreditation cycles. Continuous survey-readiness has stopped being a best practice and become the operating assumption.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-s-hospice-license-moratorium-plan-for-mid-2027/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/california-s-hospice-license-moratorium-plan-for-mid-2027/",
   "title": "California's hospice license moratorium: plan for mid-2027",
   "summary": "California has barred new hospice licenses since January 1, 2022. The statute ends the moratorium on January 1, 2027, or one year after emergency regulations are adopted — whichever is sooner — and with CDPH's emergency regulations adopted in June 2026, the practical planning date is January 1, 2027, but confirm the controlling interpretation with counsel before committing capital.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/palliative-care-under-the-home-health-benefit-cms-opens-the-door/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/palliative-care-under-the-home-health-benefit-cms-opens-the-door/",
   "title": "Palliative care under the home health benefit: CMS opens the door",
   "summary": "In the CY 2027 proposed rule, CMS states that skilled palliative care services can be furnished and billed under the existing Medicare home health benefit for eligible patients with serious illness — with examples to follow in sub-regulatory guidance after the final rule. Providers have sought a community-based palliative pathway for years; this is the first concrete opening.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/the-hospice-election-addendum-would-become-mandatory-for-every/",
   "url": "https://americanhealthcarehub.com/news/the-hospice-election-addendum-would-become-mandatory-for-every/",
   "title": "The hospice election addendum would become mandatory for every election",
   "summary": "CMS proposes requiring hospices to provide the election statement addendum — the list of conditions, items, services, and drugs the hospice has determined are unrelated to the terminal illness — to every beneficiary at election, not only on request. If finalized, this converts an occasional document into a universal admission workflow step.",
   "date_published": "2026-07-04T08:00:00Z"
  }
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