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PDGM in 2027: How the 3% Temporary Adjustment and New Case-Mix Weights Change Your Margin
October 30, 2026

PDGM in 2027: How the 3% Temporary Adjustment and New Case-Mix Weights Change Your Margin

CMS proposes a 2.65% increase in the Medicare home health 30-day rate for 2027 and keeps a 3% temporary reduction in place. Agencies with thin margins may tighten admissions, which leaves hospital discharge teams and referring physicians with fewer places to send patients. Our covers the full rule.

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Post-Acute Care AI Readiness: A Data Foundation Playbook for 2027
October 29, 2026

Post-Acute Care AI Readiness: A Data Foundation Playbook for 2027

Home health agencies are heading into 2027 with a bigger data job than they've ever had. For start-of-care dates on or after January 1, 2027, CMS intends to fold OASIS assessments from patients of every payer into the annual payment update calculation.

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How Can AI Agents Improve Hospice Eligibility Verification While Staying CMS-Compliant?
October 27, 2026

How Can AI Agents Improve Hospice Eligibility Verification While Staying CMS-Compliant?

AI agents for hospice care work best as a governed layer on top of clean, traceable data. They handle eligibility checks, family communication, and documentation support while physicians and nurses keep every clinical decision

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AI Agents for Patient and Family Engagement in Hospice Care: What to Automate and What to Keep Human
October 26, 2026

AI Agents for Patient and Family Engagement in Hospice Care: What to Automate and What to Keep Human

Hospice care happens at the kitchen table and the bedside, and families carry much of it. That is why the CAHPS Hospice measures on family experience carry so much weight with leadership

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Hospice Eligibility Agents: Automating Intake Validation Against CMS Criteria
October 23, 2026

Hospice Eligibility Agents: Automating Intake Validation Against CMS Criteria

A hospice eligibility agent reads each referral packet, checks it against CMS eligibility criteria and your own scoring rules, and returns an Eligible, Pending Review, or Ineligible status with the reasoning attached. Your physician still certifies the prognosis.

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What Happens When You Run dbt build? A Step-by-Step Guide
October 21, 2026

What Happens When You Run dbt build? A Step-by-Step Guide

You type dbt build, hit enter, and for a few seconds, nothing seems to happen. Then the terminal fills with green: models built, tests passing, a tidy summary waiting at the bottom. It looks effortless. It isn't.

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Building Audit-Ready Dashboards for CMS and Compliance Reviews
October 19, 2026

Building Audit-Ready Dashboards for CMS and Compliance Reviews

An audit-ready dashboard ties every compliance number to the patient record behind it. Learn what CMS and OIG reviewers check in 2026, which KPIs to track, and how to build the trail. CMS now publishes provider-level hospice scores. The Service and Spending Variation Index uses nine claims-based measures, so a reviewer can spot your pattern…

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Home Health Staffing Analytics: Capacity Planning for Home-Based Care Networks
October 16, 2026

Home Health Staffing Analytics: Capacity Planning for Home-Based Care Networks

Home health staffing analytics shows home-based care networks where visit capacity leaks: turnover, scheduling friction, drive time, and documentation load. This guide covers capacity planning, workforce forecasting, burnout signals, and referral conversion, so COOs can match staffing to demand across home health, home care, and hospice.

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Top 10 Companies Building AI Agents for Healthcare in 2027
October 15, 2026

Top 10 Companies Building AI Agents for Healthcare in 2027

Ten companies lead the conversation on AI agents in healthcare heading into 2027. Inferenz sits first for home health, hospice and home care providers that want agentic AI in healthcare running on top of the EHRs they already own, with a no-code builder their own teams can use.

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Predictive Analytics for Hospice Operations: How Governed Data Becomes Forecasts Leadership Can Defend
October 14, 2026

Predictive Analytics for Hospice Operations: How Governed Data Becomes Forecasts Leadership Can Defend

Predictive analytics for hospice operations starts with governed data. This article builds on the foundation in How Hospice Organizations Build a CMS-Ready Data Foundation and shows what becomes possible once that foundation exists

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Cutting Hospice Referral Intake Delays with Automated Eligibility Screening
October 12, 2026

Cutting Hospice Referral Intake Delays with Automated Eligibility Screening

Most hospice referral intake delays trace back to manual eligibility checks, scattered referral channels, and slow physician signatures. Automated eligibility screening lets your team check every referral against the same criteria in minutes.

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Hospice Length of Stay Forecasting: Building Models Leadership Can Defend
October 9, 2026

Hospice Length of Stay Forecasting: Building Models Leadership Can Defend

Hospice length of stay forecasting estimates how long each patient will stay on service, so COOs can see cap exposure, staffing strain, and live discharge risk early. This guide covers what the models predict, the data they need, how accurate they are, and how to validate one before leadership relies on it.

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Databricks Lakebase: Serving Lakehouse Data to Applications with Synced Tables
October 7, 2026

Databricks Lakebase: Serving Lakehouse Data to Applications with Synced Tables

Databricks Lakebase is managed PostgreSQL inside Databricks that serves Gold-layer lakehouse data to applications with low latency, and synced tables handle the reverse ETL.

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Data Governance and CMS Compliance Frameworks for Hospice Organizations
October 5, 2026

Data Governance and CMS Compliance Frameworks for Hospice Organizations

A hospice data governance framework gives your leadership team named owners, tested data rules, and traceable records across HOPE, CAHPS, and claims data.

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Building Audit-Ready Data Lineage That Survives a CMS Review
October 1, 2026

Building Audit-Ready Data Lineage That Survives a CMS Review

Most hospices can answer that question eventually. Very few can answer it inside the 45 calendar days a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) allows for an Additional Documentation Request, and fewer still can answer it the same way twice if a second reviewer asks.

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The Top 10 EHR/EMR Platforms for Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice in 2026
September 30, 2026

The Top 10 EHR/EMR Platforms for Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice in 2026

A home health or hospice agency picks a core clinical system once every seven to ten years. Get it right, and that system becomes the operational backbone for referrals, scheduling, billing, and every OASIS or HOPE assessment a clinician files. Get it wrong, and the organization spends the next decade working around software instead of…

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How Hospice Organizations Build a CMS-Ready Data Foundation
September 28, 2026

How Hospice Organizations Build a CMS-Ready Data Foundation

CMS replaced the Hospice Item Set with the HOPE assessment tool on October 1, 2025, turning hospice quality reporting into a real-time data-integrity test most hospice data stacks were never built to pass.

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Medallion Architecture Explained: Bronze, Silver, and Gold Layers for Healthcare Data
September 25, 2026

Medallion Architecture Explained: Bronze, Silver, and Gold Layers for Healthcare Data

Medallion architecture sorts healthcare data into three progressively cleaner layers, bronze, silver, and gold, so a hospice or health system's leadership team can trust the number behind every clinical, compliance, and financial decision.

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