Every regulatory action that touches home health and hospice agencies, explained in plain English, with its official source named and what to do about it. Free, always.
CDPH has issued AFL 26-28 implementing SB 164, which places a moratorium on new home health agency licenses and broadens licensure requirements for Califo…
USCIS is sending a revised E-Verify information collection to OMB and allowing 30 more days for public comment. Agencies enrolled in E-Verify may see chan…
CMS has issued final rule CMS-1851-F updating Medicare hospice payment rates, the wage index, and the aggregate cap amount for fiscal year 2027, along wit…
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…
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…
Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, telehealth face-to-face recertification encounters are prohibited in specific circumstances for encounter…
California has barred new hospice licenses since January 1, 2022. Under Health and Safety Code §1751.70 the moratorium runs until January 1, 2027. CDPH's…
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…
ACHC is conducting targeted, one-day focus surveys at selected home health and hospice agencies in states under enhanced CMS oversight — between regular r…
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…
Tucked into the home health payment rule is a program-integrity package that applies to all Medicare providers and suppliers: more revocation grounds woul…
Inside the CY 2027 proposed rule (CMS-1844-P) is an operational change: the quarterly HH QRP deadline for submitting and correcting OASIS data would move…
CMS has finalized the requirement (CMS-1851-F): for every hospice election on or after October 1, 2026, the hospice must give the beneficiary or represent…
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…
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…
CMS, through its program-integrity contractor Qlarant, has been auditing California hospices with elevated live-discharge rates — with hundreds of agencie…
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