PDGM
Medicare home health payment model.
Definition
Medicare home health payment model.
Why it matters
PDGM is part of the Medicare vocabulary used across home health operations, documentation, and revenue cycle. Understanding it helps clinicians, QA leads, and administrators stay aligned on care quality and compliance.
Home Health Documentation Playbook
The complete guide to OASIS-E, Medicare compliance, PDGM, and AI-assisted documentation. Learn how top agencies reduce documentation time without sacrificing compliance.
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PDGM vs. PPS: What's Changed for Home Health?
PDGM did not replace Medicare's Home Health Prospective Payment System. It changed the case-mix methodology inside HH PPS—and reshaped payment periods, coding, OASIS, LUPA monitoring, billing, and cash flow.
What Is OASIS-E? The Complete Guide for Home Health Agencies (2026)
OASIS-E is the CMS-required standardized assessment behind home health reimbursement, quality, and compliance. This complete guide covers what OASIS-E is, how it differs from D1/E1/E2, the five assessment time points, Section GG, PDGM impact, and documentation best practices.
LUPA Explained: How Low Utilization Payment Adjustment Affects Home Health Agencies
LUPA — Low Utilization Payment Adjustment — kicks in when a 30-day home health period falls below its PDGM visit threshold, shifting payment from the case-mix-adjusted 30-day rate to per-visit. This guide explains how thresholds work, what causes avoidable LUPAs, and how to manage LUPA risk without chasing visits.
Free Home Health Billing Cheat Sheet
Home health billing gets complicated fast — PDGM, HIPPS, OASIS, NOA, LUPA, HCPCS and revenue codes, and payer rules all have to line up with the documentation. This guide walks through the essentials and gives you a free, downloadable cheat sheet your billing and clinical teams can actually use.
PDGM Documentation Strategies for Home Health Agencies
Under PDGM, documentation establishes the clinical picture that supports classification, medical necessity, coding, and payment. This guide breaks down 15 PDGM documentation strategies, a documentation-to-payment framework, weak-vs-strong examples, and a closed-loop workflow to keep charts consistent and audit-ready.