Ep 7Rosa Hart names the crisis no one wants to talk about — and why agencies who don't address it now will be priced out of the market in 24 months.
Rosa HartApr 6, 2026Resources Hub
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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.

Buying AI software is the easy part, implementing it well is where agencies succeed or fail. This step-by-step healthcare AI adoption checklist covers defining the problem, involving clinicians, verifying security, EMR integration, training, piloting, and measuring success.

The best home health software in 2026 isn't one platform, it's a stack. This guide compares EMRs, AI documentation, coding, OASIS QA, and analytics, with vendor strengths and limitations, comparison tables, and a build-your-stack checklist.
The CMS-required home health assessment instrument — 23 pages with skip logic.
DefinitionPatient-Driven Groupings Model — case-mix based Medicare payment for home health.
DefinitionBrief Interview for Mental Status — exact-wording required to preserve scoring validity.
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SOC, ROC, and Recertification all involve OASIS and Medicare documentation, but each serves a very different purpose. This guide breaks down what each assessment is, when it's required, how it affects reimbursement, and the mistakes agencies should avoid.

Is AI documentation HIPAA compliant? Yes, but only when it's built for healthcare. This guide covers what HIPAA requires of AI documentation, the security features to look for, common myths, and the exact questions to ask before you share PHI with any AI vendor.
OASIS section that scores self-care and mobility ability and assistance need.
DefinitionAdditional Documentation Request — Medicare's request for records to support a billed claim.
DefinitionHuman-in-the-loop — a human reviews and approves AI output before it's used.
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Medicare home health claim denials are revenue leaks, not just billing issues. This guide breaks down the ten most common reasons claims get denied, from OASIS gaps and late NOAs to coding and medical-necessity problems, and how to prevent them to get paid faster.

Home health nurses juggle navigation, documentation, communication, medications, and OASIS every day. These are the best apps for home health nurses in 2026, from AI-powered documentation and OASIS voice dictation to navigation, scheduling, and secure communication tools.
Home Health Q&A
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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Every conversation on the show, grouped by the operational and clinical challenges home health leaders are working on right now.
Home Health Operations
Operators, scheduling leaders, and clinical executives on what it actually takes to run a modern agency.
Ep 7Rosa Hart names the crisis no one wants to talk about — and why agencies who don't address it now will be priced out of the market in 24 months.
Rosa HartApr 6, 2026
Ep 3Gaurav and Kathy unpack the EMR disconnect every home health nurse lives with — and how AI can finally bridge the gap between the visit and the chart.
Kathy DuckettMar 9, 2026
Ep 4Laurel Chiaramonte traces her path from manual 18-hour nurse scheduling to building AI scheduling algorithms now used by the military — and what home health can learn from it.
Laurel ChiaramonteMar 16, 2026Nurse Burnout & Workforce
Burnout, retention, and the real cost of the documentation tail on nurses and patient experience.
Ep 11Nina Stevenson on the under-the-radar AI shift coming for CNAs, medics, and LVNs — and the practical playbook for nurses who want to be on the right side of it.
Nina StevensonMay 4, 2026
Ep 1Kathy Duckett pulls back the curtain on the unfiltered reality of home health nursing — the windshield time, the after-hours documentation, and the parts of the job that never make it to social media.
Kathy DuckettFeb 23, 2026
Ep 2Valerie Choniuk reframes clinician burnout as the upstream cause of the patient experience crisis — and walks through what AI can and cannot do about it.
Valerie ChoniukMar 2, 2026Healthcare AI
Founders, clinicians, and operators on what AI can and cannot do at the bedside.
Ep 14Desiree Paige on the clinical intuition AI can't replicate and what the right AI partnership for the bedside nurse actually looks like.
Desiree PaigeJun 1, 2026
Ep 12Susie Branagan on trauma-informed AI, why the bar for clinical AI is not accuracy alone, and what 'AI's clinical conscience' actually looks like in practice.
Susie BranaganMay 11, 2026
Ep 9Paulo Machado on the next five years of healthcare AI — who gets disrupted, who wins, and how home health operators should position right now.
Paulo J. MachadoApr 20, 2026
Ep 10Nathan Hayman tells the founding story of Rivvi.ai — how watching his wife come home from clinical shifts in tears led to a conversational AI infra company for healthcare.
Nathan HaymanApr 27, 2026OASIS & Documentation
Deep dives into the skip-logic, the goals, the interventions, and the cost of getting any of it wrong.
Ep 6A deep dive into why the OASIS is the single hardest document in home health — the skip-logic, the goals, the interventions, and the cost of getting any of it wrong.
Kathy DuckettMar 30, 2026
Ep 13Part three with Kathy Duckett — can AI actually solve the OASIS crisis, what the human-in-the-loop layer has to look like, and where the future of home health documentation is heading.
Kathy DuckettMay 18, 2026Leadership & Career Growth
Nurses turning clinical experience into leadership, entrepreneurship, and revenue-generating roles.
Ep 5Kimberly Maurer on the false binary nurses are sold — and the third path she built helping nurses reclaim their voice without leaving the profession behind.
Kimberly MaurerMar 23, 2026
Ep 15Luke Adams on Advanced Care Planning and how turning nurses into revenue-generating clinicians changes both margin and meaning in primary care and hospitals.
Luke AdamsJun 8, 2026Patient & Family Experience
Aging in America, family caregivers, and the patient experience side of clinical care.
Ep 8Dr. Pooja Patel walks through what families discover too late about aging in America — and how home health and OT can change the trajectory if engaged early.
Pooja A. Patel, DrOTApr 13, 2026