Every regulatory action that touches home health and hospice agencies — explained in plain English, cited to the regulation, with what to do about it. Free, always.
CMS has released a proposed rule targeting Medicare fraud, strengthening program integrity safeguards, and expanding access to home health care — changes…
CDPH's emergency hospice regulations took effect June 22, 2026 — the first comprehensive operational licensing framework California hospices have ever had…
CMS's FY 2027 hospice proposed rule pairs a 2.4% payment update (~$785 million) with something more consequential: the Service and Spending Variation Inde…
Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, telehealth face-to-face recertification encounters are prohibited in specific circumstances for encounter…
Effective May 13, 2026, CMS imposed a six-month nationwide moratorium on new Medicare enrollments for home health agencies and hospices — and on certain m…
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 re…
Inside the CY 2027 proposed rule is an operational change that will hit daily workflow harder than the payment update: OASIS assessment data submission de…
CMS, through its program-integrity contractor Qlarant, has been auditing California hospices with elevated live-discharge rates — with hundreds of agencie…
Tucked into the home health payment rule is a program-integrity package that applies to all Medicare providers and suppliers: every enrollment revocation…
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…
Under the FY 2025–26 fee schedule, CDPH charges fees for Report of Change applications from home health and hospice agencies — filings that were previousl…
ACHC is conducting targeted, one-day focus surveys at selected home health and hospice agencies in states under enhanced CMS oversight — between regular r…
California has barred new hospice licenses since January 1, 2022. The statute ends the moratorium on January 1, 2027, or one year after emergency regulati…
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…
CMS proposes requiring hospices to provide the election statement addendum — the list of conditions, items, services, and drugs the hospice has determined…
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