What Really Happens During a Survey Home Visit for Home Health?
    Compliance 18 min

    What Really Happens During a Survey Home Visit for Home Health?

    A home health survey visit lets a surveyor observe care in the patient's home and compare real-world practice with the plan of care, clinical record, agency policies, and Medicare requirements.

    Arvind SarinSep 9, 2026
    PDGM vs. PPS: What's Changed for Home Health?
    Cash Flow 16 min

    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.

    Arvind SarinSep 8, 2026
    HIPAA in Home Health & Hospice: Understanding the Basics & Privacy Rules
    Compliance 14 min

    HIPAA in Home Health & Hospice: Understanding the Basics & Privacy Rules

    Understand how HIPAA applies when home health and hospice teams work in patients' homes, travel with devices, communicate with families, and rely on outside vendors.

    Arvind SarinSep 7, 2026
    GlossaryDocumentation

    OASIS

    The CMS-required home health assessment instrument — 23 pages with skip logic.

    Definition
    GlossaryPayment

    PDGM

    Patient-Driven Groupings Model — case-mix based Medicare payment for home health.

    Definition
    GlossaryClinical

    BIMS

    Brief Interview for Mental Status — exact-wording required to preserve scoring validity.

    Definition
    How Should Medicare Home Health Agencies Prepare for a CMS Provider Validation Survey?
    Compliance 13 min

    How Should Medicare Home Health Agencies Prepare for a CMS Provider Validation Survey?

    A CMS provider enrollment site visit may be unannounced. Prepare your people, office, records, signage, and enrollment information before an inspector arrives.

    Arvind SarinSep 4, 2026
    Why Is Your Home Health or Hospice Agency Losing Referrals Before the Start of Care?
    Operations 15 min

    Why Is Your Home Health or Hospice Agency Losing Referrals Before the Start of Care?

    A referral is not an admission. Learn where referrals stall between intake and Start of Care—and how ownership, visibility, and follow-up can prevent avoidable losses.

    Arvind SarinSep 3, 2026
    GlossaryFunctional

    GG

    OASIS section that scores self-care and mobility ability and assistance need.

    Definition
    GlossaryCompliance

    ADR

    Additional Documentation Request — Medicare's request for records to support a billed claim.

    Definition
    GlossaryAI Pattern

    HITL

    Human-in-the-loop — a human reviews and approves AI output before it's used.

    Definition
    What Happens If My Home Health or Hospice Agency Fails a Survey?
    Compliance 17 min

    What Happens If My Home Health or Hospice Agency Fails a Survey?

    A survey deficiency does not automatically mean closure. Learn what happens next, how corrective action works, and when survey problems can threaten Medicare participation.

    Arvind SarinSep 2, 2026
    What Is a Comprehensive Assessment in Home Health?
    Compliance 20 min

    What Is a Comprehensive Assessment in Home Health?

    A complete guide to comprehensive assessments in home health: required content, current Medicare timing, OASIS-E2, clinician responsibility, care planning, documentation errors, and a practical checklist.

    Arvind SarinSep 1, 2026

    Home Health Q&A

    Answer-first responses to the questions operators actually ask

    Short, direct answers on EMR choices, pricing, OASIS, referral management, AI documentation, and reducing denials, written for home health leaders comparing their options.

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    Podcast library

    Inside Home Health, by topic

    Every conversation on the show, grouped by the operational and clinical challenges home health leaders are working on right now.

    Home Health Operations

    Inside the home health agency

    Operators, scheduling leaders, and clinical executives on what it actually takes to run a modern agency.

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    Nurse Burnout & Workforce

    The workforce conversation no one wants to have

    Burnout, retention, and the real cost of the documentation tail on nurses and patient experience.

    All episodes

    Healthcare AI

    Healthcare AI, from the people building it

    Founders, clinicians, and operators on what AI can and cannot do at the bedside.

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    OASIS & Documentation

    Why OASIS is the hardest document in home health

    Deep dives into the skip-logic, the goals, the interventions, and the cost of getting any of it wrong.

    All episodes

    Leadership & Career Growth

    Career paths the nursing playbook forgot

    Nurses turning clinical experience into leadership, entrepreneurship, and revenue-generating roles.

    All episodes

    Patient & Family Experience

    What families discover too late

    Aging in America, family caregivers, and the patient experience side of clinical care.

    All episodes

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