Editorial standards.

Who writes this

Home Health 101 and our other long-form clinician content are written by the editorial team at ZigBuddy. We build a scheduling and routing app used by physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and registered nurses working in home health, so the people writing the content sit next to the people who hear from clinicians every day. The voice is deliberately peer-to-peer: the chapters are written for working clinicians, by writers who spend their time in the working clinician's problems.

We publish under a team byline rather than individual names. The reason is practical: the content is iterated on continuously, with contributions from more than one person, and a single author byline would misrepresent that. The editorial team is accountable for everything published here.

How it's reviewed

Every chapter is refined with feedback from practicing home-health clinicians who use ZigBuddy in their own work — PTs, OTs, SLPs, and RNs across a range of agencies, geographies, and visit types. Their feedback shapes the content directly: corrections, examples, language that rings true vs. language that doesn't. When a chapter is wrong in a way only a working clinician would notice, a working clinician is usually the one who tells us.

Regulatory and clinical claims (Medicare, CMS, OASIS, PDGM, LUPA, homebound criteria, HIPAA, mileage rates, tax treatment) are grounded in primary sources — CMS manuals, the OASIS Guidance Manual, 42 CFR, IRS publications — and the sources are listed at the bottom of any chapter that makes a specific claim. When our summary and the source disagree, follow the source.

What this content is and isn't

Home Health 101 is editorial guidance written to help clinicians who are new to home health get oriented to the profession. It is not medical advice, legal advice, tax advice, or a substitute for your agency's policy, your state's practice act, or current CMS regulation. For specific clinical, regulatory, or financial decisions, work from the primary sources and your agency's compliance team.

When we update

The corpus is reviewed end-to-end at least twice a year and individual chapters more often when something material changes (a new IRS mileage rate, a CMS regulatory update, a clinician flagging an error). The last-reviewed date on each chapter reflects the most recent editorial pass over that page; the date on this Standards page reflects the most recent update to our standards themselves.

Corrections

If you find something wrong, please email editorial@zigbuddy.com. We take corrections from working clinicians seriously and we move on them fast — the site is a real codebase that we ship to in minutes, not a CMS that takes a committee. Tell us what's wrong, where it is, and (if you can) what the right answer should be. If your correction makes it in, we'll thank you in the commit and credit you publicly on request.

Conflicts of interest

ZigBuddy is a paid product. Home Health 101 sometimes mentions our app where it's directly relevant (typically at the end of a chapter, in a soft pointer rather than a hard sell). We don't write chapters to sell software. If our product fits the problem a chapter is about, we'll say so once and link to it; if it doesn't, we won't shoehorn it in. We'd rather lose the placement than write content that reads like marketing.

How to reach us

• Editorial corrections, source disputes, or chapter suggestions: editorial@zigbuddy.com
• Product questions: Support
• Security or HIPAA inquiries: Security