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Insights, tools, and practical guidance for California home health and hospice leaders.
California-specific guidance on compliance and licensing, workforce and clinical operations, insurance and claims, and technology and resilience — written for owners, Administrators, Directors of Patient Care Services and the people who carry the operational risk.
California hospice Title 22: what the new rules require, and what they change about your risk
On 22 June 2026 California gave hospice its first comprehensive rulebook in thirty-six years. The 12:1 caseload cap, the two-hour response guarantee, management qualifications, ten-year records and unannounced inspections — and, for each one, where the operational response moves your insurance exposure.
Updated 7 August 2026 · about 9 minutes
- Effective
- 22 June 2026
- Licensed nurse caseload
- 12 max
- In-person response
- 2 hours
- Record retention
- 10 years
- CHOW restriction
- 5 years
- Inspections
- Unannounced
Failure to maintain the caseload cap or the response requirement is itself a ground for licence suspension or revocation.
Four pillars.
Compliance & Licensing Risk
CDPH and CMS, Title 22, PPEO, change of ownership, surveys, documentation, management requirements, Medicare audits.
Workforce & Clinical Operations Risk
Staffing ratios, DPCS oversight, patient acuity, two-hour response, employee safety, nurse recruiting and retention, auto exposure, workplace injuries.
Insurance, Claims & Financial Risk
Workers compensation classification, experience modifications, payroll reporting, professional and general liability, EPLI, cyber, D&O, claim management, insurance audits, coverage gaps.
Technology, Cyber & Operational Resilience
EMRs, AI, cyber liability, HIPAA and CMIA, audit trails, telehealth, ransomware, vendor risk, business continuity.
Growth and referrals, ownership and transactions, safety, claims, staffing and classification run as tags across all four rather than as pillars of their own.
- How your experience modification is actually calculated The formula in plain language, worked end to end on a real agency profile — and why three small claims cost more than one large one.
- Home care, home health or hospice: why the difference decides your insurance CDPH and CDSS licensing, 8827(1) versus 8827(2), and why job titles do not decide the code.
- California hospice Title 22: what the new rules require, and what they change about your risk The 12:1 cap, the two-hour guarantee, management qualifications, ten-year records — and the insurance consequence of each.
- How to actually hire home health nurses in California The applicant pool is not the problem. Speed, scheduling and the first ninety days are — and early-tenure injuries drive your modification.
- Can you split clerical payroll out of 8827? Yes, and the manual says so plainly. Three conditions catch most agencies, and one is a genuine trap.
Free things you can use right now.
Built for California home-based care specifically. No email required for any of them.
Clerical split checker
How much office payroll qualifies for 8810 or 8871, what it is worth at your carrier's filed rates, and who is disqualified.
Experience mod calculator
Enter payroll and claim values, get your modification from the published WCIRB formula. Shows which claims are actually moving your number.
Renewal & deadline calendar
Your renewal, unit statistical date, mod issuance and correction windows, generated from your policy dates.
In development
Rate lookup
Every classification a home-based care agency touches, current and prior year, with the change.
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