Home Health Acceptance to Service Regulatory Updates and Sample Policies!

Written By Annette Lee

The surveyor guidelines for the new “Acceptance of Patients” regulation for home health agencies (effective 1/1/25) have finally been published, giving more clarity to expectations for surveyors and home health agencies. We have put together a tool packet to help you understand the changes and maintain compliance!

The set of tools linked below provides step-by-step guidance, model policies, and practical templates to help you meet CMS compliance standards for patient acceptance (G990) and public transparency (G992). They make regulatory adherence simple by giving your teams clear implementation plans, evaluation worksheets, and logs to accurately assess patient intake capacity against agency resources. These resources can help you streamline your workflows, keep your public-facing information accurate, and stay fully prepared for surveyor audits!

Click below to download:

Download the Regulatory Update Tool Here
Download the Compliance Assessment Tool Here
Download the Sample Policies Here
Annette Lee

Founder Annette Lee built Provider Insights to give home health and hospice providers peace of mind. She’s had decades of experience at CMS and provided many years of consultancy services—including contracting as a Medicare Administrator with MAC.

She speaks Medicare-ese fluently and knows how to make the most complicated rules make sense for patient-centered providers who don’t have the time to dissect every rule. Agencies that work with Provider Insights can rest assured they’re fully compliant with the regulations that are in place today. And they’ll stay compliant when those regulations change tomorrow.

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