Home Health & Hospice
Home-Based Care & End-of-Life
CMS PDGM and HHVBP policy, hospital-at-home models, RPM coverage, hospice benefit updates, and workforce news for home health agencies, PACE programs, and hospice providers.
~11,000
Home Health Agencies
CMS certified, 2023
~6M
Medicare Episodes/Year
MedPAC 2023
$22B+
Medicare HH Spend
Annual, MedPAC 2023
1.8M+
Hospice Enrollees/Year
NHPCO 2022
Coverage Areas
Home Health & Hospice Topics
Clinical, regulatory, and operational coverage for home health agencies, hospice programs, hospital-at-home initiatives, and PACE organizations.
CMS Home Health Value-Based Purchasing and Patient-Driven Groupings Model — the two pillars of modern home health payment reform.
HHVBP — National Expansion & Scoring
PDGM — Groupings, LUPAs & Adjustments
Annual Home Health Prospective Payment Rule
OASIS-E Data Collection & Coding
Acute care delivered in the home setting and fully integrated Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly — the frontier of home-based care.
CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver
PACE — Program of All-Inclusive Care
Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC)
Transitional Care & Step-Down Models
Remote patient monitoring devices, virtual care platforms, and connected health tools reshaping how clinicians oversee homebound patients.
RPM Reimbursement & CPT Coverage
Wearables & Biometric Monitoring
Telehealth in Home Health Settings
Digital Therapeutics & Patient Engagement
Medicare hospice benefit policy, HOPE assessment tool, concurrent care models, and the palliative care continuum in home and community settings.
Medicare Hospice Benefit & Carve-Outs
HOPE — Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation
Palliative Care in Home & Community
VBID Hospice Concurrent Care Model
Home health aide competency requirements, workforce pipeline challenges, direct care worker compensation, and immigration policy impacts.
HHA Competency Standards & CMS Requirements
Direct Care Worker Wages & Turnover
Aide-to-Nurse Delegation Models
Immigration Policy & Home Care Labor Supply
HHCAHPS patient experience, star ratings, hospitalization rates, and functional outcome measures that define home health performance.
Home Health Star Ratings & Care Compare
HHCAHPS — Patient Experience Measures
Hospitalization & ED Utilization Rates
Functional Outcome & Improvement Measures
Data & Trends
Medicare Home Health Spend
Annual Part A/B — MedPAC ($B)
HHCAHPS Patient Experience
National average scores — CMS 2023 (0–100)
Agency Star Rating Distribution
CMS Care Compare 2024 — ~11,000 agencies
Sources: MedPAC March 2024 Report · CMS HHCAHPS National Data (2023) · CMS Care Compare (2024). 2024e = estimate.