Executive guide
Make survey readiness an everyday discipline
Home health and hospice oversight is changing. Survey-Ready Every Day helps leaders understand the 2026 regulatory landscape and turn changing requirements into practical, repeatable processes across clinical, quality, compliance, operations, and revenue cycle.
Build readiness into everyday operations
Survey readiness takes more than tracking regulatory updates. It requires clear ownership, consistent processes, visibility into risk, and the ability to show that your controls are working. Survey-Ready Every Day brings together regulatory guidance, executive exercises, and practical tools to help your organization move from periodic survey preparation to continuous readiness.
Hospice readiness priorities
Examine HOPE and HQRP, eligibility, claims-based oversight, election statement requirements, and other areas leaders should be monitoring.
Home health readiness priorities
Explore what evolving expectations around quality, access, assessment accuracy, documentation, and capacity mean for day-to-day operations.
Executive exercises
Put your processes to the test with practical exercises for tracing records, reviewing documentation, examining operational variation, and retrieval speed for supporting evidence.
Technology as a compliance control
See how workflows, alerts, guardrails, analytics, audit trails, and stronger clinical-to-billing handoffs can help reinforce well-designed compliance processes.
Survey and audit snapshots
Use dedicated home health and hospice snapshots to help organize key areas of regulatory and audit attention.
Accountability matrix
Create clearer ownership across teams with an example framework for assigning responsibility and maintaining visibility.
Executive readiness scorecard
Assess where your organization stands today and identify areas that may need greater leadership attention.
Executive action plan
Review five priorities to help leadership turn readiness findings into an ongoing management discipline.
Are your processes ready to be tested?
Use the report to help your leadership team answer the questions that matter before a surveyor or auditor asks them.
What changed for home health and hospice in 2026?
Get an executive-level view of important regulatory developments, with clear distinctions between requirements already in effect, finalized changes with future implementation dates, and policies that remain proposed or evolving.
Where should hospice leaders focus?
Review operational considerations related to HOPE and quality reporting, eligibility and recertification, claims-based oversight, election statement requirements, and the changing survey environment.
Where should home health leaders focus?
Explore OASIS-E2, quality reporting and HHVBP, acceptance-to-service expectations, face-to-face requirements, LUPA considerations, and other developments affecting documentation and operations.
What does a survey-ready organization look like?
Learn how governance, realistic mock surveys, visible corrective action, clear accountability, and executive oversight can make readiness part of normal operations.
How can technology reinforce compliance processes?
See how thoughtfully designed workflows can surface exceptions, guide required actions, strengthen handoffs, preserve audit trails, and make important information easier to retrieve.
How can we assess our readiness now?
Use the report’s executive exercises, home health and hospice snapshots, accountability matrix, readiness scorecard, and action plan to evaluate your current processes and identify priorities.
Make readiness part of how you operate
Regulatory change will continue. The stronger approach is building an organization that can recognize risk, respond consistently, and demonstrate that its processes are working consistently. Download Survey-Ready Every Day for practical guidance and tools to help strengthen continuous survey readiness across your organization.