Stay current on CMS rule updates, HIPAA requirements, EVV mandates, and home health policy changes — with clear breakdowns of what each regulation means.
CMS changes the rules for home health every year, and the changes rarely arrive as a clean announcement. A payment update sits inside a 700-page rule alongside a clawback, a quality reporting deadline moves by a month, an OASIS item is replaced by one with a different code.
These pieces read the primary source and say what changed, when it takes effect, and what an agency has to do differently. Every figure is taken from the rule text or the CMS guidance manual rather than from a summary — which is slower to write and the only way this is worth reading.
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20 articles in Regulations & Policy
Your geographic payment adjustment comes from a hospital wage index containing no home health labor costs. CMS has opened a request for information on that.
Reza
·5 min read
CMS says a terminal or chronic diagnosis does not disqualify skilled need under the home health benefit. What the rule states, and what still gates eligibility.
Reza
·6 min read
CMS proposed a 2.4% increase for CY 2027 — with a 3% clawback inside it and $4.9 billion still owed. The real arithmetic, and how to comment.
Reza
·10 min read
CMS proposed re-deriving PDGM functional points for CY 2027. The eight OASIS items that set your functional level, and the quirk most agencies miss.
Reza
·8 min read
OASIS-E2 went live April 1, 2026. CMS issued 14 new clarifications in the April Q&A — here's the checklist drawn straight from CMS, no interpretations.
Reza
·13 min read
CMS rebalanced HHVBP weights for 2026 — OASIS functional outcomes now drive 40% of your performance score. Full measure set, what changed, why it matters.
Reza
·13 min read
CMS doesn't pay a per-visit rate for home health — Medicare pays per 30-day PDGM period. Here's the 2026 math and what drives your reimbursement.
Reza
·10 min read
Electronic Visit Verification is federally mandated for home health and personal care. What it captures, how states enforce it, and what you need.
Reza
·9 min read
Medicare covers home health services at $0 cost to patients — no copay, no deductible. Here's what qualifies, what's excluded, and when you might owe something.
Reza
·10 min read