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Setting Realistic New Year Staffing and Training Goals for Your Clinical Team

Olli Health Marketing — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:14:24 GMT

A new year is when a lot of agencies decide this is the year training finally gets fixed. It's a good instinct. It also tends to produce goals that are either too vague to act on or too ambitious to actually stick, which is why so many training initiatives quietly fade by spring. Realistic goals, built around how clinical judgment actually develops, tend to hold up a lot better.

Building Your Case Mix and Reimbursement Goals for the New Year

Olli Health Marketing — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:00:00 GMT

A new year invites vague goals. Improve accuracy. Increase reimbursement. Reduce errors. None of that is wrong exactly, but none of it is specific enough to actually act on either. The agencies that make real progress on case mix and reimbursement over a year are the ones who turn those vague intentions into a few concrete, measurable targets before the year even starts.

Audit-Ready by Design

Olli Health Marketing — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Audit-Ready by Design: What CMS Actually Looks For in OASIS and Coding Documentation, and Why Most Agencies Find Out the Hard Way

A Year-End Documentation and Compliance Checklist Before the New Year

Olli Health Marketing — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:00:00 GMT

The turn of the year is a natural reset point, and it's worth using that momentum for more than a resolution you'll forget by February. A deliberate look at your documentation and compliance posture before the new year starts is one of the most useful things a QA lead or DON can carve out time for, and it doesn't need to take more than a focused afternoon.

What the CY2027 Home Health Final Rule Means for Your Margin

Olli Health Marketing — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

CMS finalized the CY2027 Home Health payment rule on November 4, and the headline is the part everyone wants to hear: CMS estimates aggregate Medicare payments to home health agencies will rise 2.4 percent over 2026 , in line with what it proposed in July. The temporary 3 percent PDGM adjustment sticks around too, so the raise comes with the same recoupment agencies have been working around all year.

What Year-End Payer and Insurance Changes Mean for Your Referrals

Olli Health Marketing — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Every year, right around the same stretch, health plans reshuffle. Open enrollment closes, new plan years begin, Medicare Advantage members shift networks, and Medicaid managed care contracts renew. None of this is new information to anyone running a home health or hospice agency, but it's worth pausing on every year anyway, because the referral disruption that follows is predictable and largely avoidable if an agency plans for it deliberately.

The Hidden Documentation Risk of Holiday Coverage Gaps

Olli Health Marketing — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

When a regular clinician takes holiday time off and a PRN or agency staff member covers their visits instead, the visit still happens, the patient still gets seen, and on paper everything looks fine. The risk that actually shows up isn't a missed visit. It's a documentation pattern that quietly breaks for a few weeks and then has to be pieced back together in January.

The Hidden Cost of Clinician Turnover on Documentation Quality - Ollihomehealth

Olli Health Marketing — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Turnover gets measured in recruiting cost and time-to-fill, and those numbers are real. What's harder to see, and rarely gets measured at all, is what turnover does to documentation quality while a position sits vacant, gets backfilled, and the new hire works through the same learning curve every clinician has to climb.

What CMS's Prior Authorization Rule Means for Home Health Agencies - Ollihomehealth

Olli Health Marketing — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

CMS-0057-F doesn't get talked about as much as the payment rules, mostly because it's aimed at payers, not providers directly. But the deadlines built into it are going to change how home health agencies interact with prior authorization, and January 1, 2027 is closer than it feels.

What CMS's Latest Improper Payment Data Reveals About Documentation - Ollihomehealth

Olli Health Marketing — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Every year, CMS runs a statistically valid sample of Medicare claims through its Comprehensive Error Rate Testing program to estimate how much of what it pays out shouldn't have been paid at all. The most recent numbers for hospice and home health are worth sitting with, not because the dollar figures are shocking on their own, but because of what's actually driving them.