2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (193+ words) A federal bill introduced Wednesday seeks to help home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities catch up on digital modernization following their exclusion from a landmark healthcare technology funding program nearly two decades ago. The Connecting Health and Records Technology…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (400+ words) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pummeling the home care industry — home health, hospice and Medicaid home- and community-based services— with a level of scrutiny and enforcement like never before. Between the barrage of onerous regulations, a home health…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (466+ words) A recent bipartisan and bicameral letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy advocates for establishing reporting requirements in hospice care surrounding physician-assisted suicide. The letter, sent by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), along…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (454+ words) The unfavorable opinion, released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector general at the end of June, only focuses on the specific set of facts in this one instance. However, it may also apply to other…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (477+ words) Increasingly, families see home care as a permanent, long-term care option rather than a short-term service. But the associated financial costs may pose a barrier, a new survey from A Place For Mom reveals. The survey of family caregivers found…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (40+ words) Home Care briefs for Thursday, July 23 mcknightshomecare.com ATA Action sounds alarm on ‘troubling’ RPM provisions in physician fee schedule proposed rule … Six people in Indiana charged in $10.9 million Medicaid home health scheme … Maxim Healthcare names new…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (341+ words) Health systems have spent years improving throughput, reducing length of stay and optimizing patient flow. Yet many continue to operate under persistent capacity pressure driven by workforce shortages, rising demand, and an aging population with increasingly complex needs. The instinct…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (231+ words) CMS withholds over $1B in Medicaid payments from California, Minnesota >> Mergers and acquisition activity in the home-based care market fell from 29 transactions in the second quarter of 2025 to 16 in the second quarter of 2026, a decrease of 44.8%, according to the Home-Based Care…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (144+ words) Calling attention once again to fraud in the home care sector, the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday morning disclosed it is deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota. It is withholding approximately $867.5 million in…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (255+ words) Advocacy organizations Monday were still grappling with the Department of Justice’s decision Friday to cease enforcing guidance related to the Olmstead decision, which found that people with disabilities have a constitutional right to receive noninstitutionalized care. The DOJ’s interpretation puts…...