The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its delayed and much-anticipated CY 2026 home health final payment rule on Friday, ...

As the home health industry still awaits the final Medicare home health payment rule, the National Alliance for Care at Home ...

Home health agencies in 2026 will see their Medicare payments decrease by 1.3%, or $220 million, under a payment rule released Friday by the Trump administration.

Several years ago, my mother-in-law, collapsed getting out of bed. Several trips to the ER later, she was diagnosed with a serious staph infection, which eventually led to sepsis. She was hospitalized ...

One of the biggest areas of confusion about Medicare is whether, and when, it covers home care. Partly, that depends on the distinction between “home care” and “home health care.” But it’s also about ...

Dear Toni: I need your help regarding my parents, who are in their late 80s. My mother has been disabled with Parkinson’s for the past three years, and my father has been her caretaker. But due to his ...

Consequences are dire: CMS data shows that seniors denied home health are 34% more likely to be re-hospitalized and 41% more ...

Medicare home health services play an essential role in helping older adults manage chronic conditions, recover from surgeries, and transition from hospitals back to the comfort and familiarity of ...

Hospital-at-home is attracting a new field of providers who say they can sustain the model despite uncertainty over how Medicare will reimburse for the service in the future. Home health agencies and ...

Less than two weeks after Option Care Health announced a proposed $3.6 billion acquisition of home health provider Amedisys, Addus HomeCare Chair and CEO Dirk Allison said his company is on the hunt ...