Most sites in this category don’t tell you where their information comes from, when it was last checked, or what happens when it turns out to be wrong.
Here’s ours.
Who writes it
Mark Duda. Every page.
I spent thirteen years running business development for one of New Jersey’s largest home health and hospice organizations — building hospital partnerships, leading the teams who arrange care at the bedside before discharge, and sitting in the meetings where referrals were counted and outcomes were graded.
I’m not a nurse and I’m not a lawyer, and I say so on every page where it matters. What I have is thirteen years of watching how this system actually behaves — and the citations to back up what I say about it.
Where the facts come from
Every factual claim on this site traces to a primary source. Not to another blog, and not to a page that cites a page that cites a study nobody has read.
For legal content, that means the statute itself — the state code section, cited by number so you can check us.
For forms, that means the official document published by the state, not a version somebody redrew.
For clinical and cost content, that means CMS, MedPAC, the CareScout/Genworth Cost of Care Survey, and peer-reviewed research. Where the evidence is contested, we say so rather than picking the answer that suits us.
Where a claim is my opinion or my interpretation, I say so explicitly — and I keep it clearly separate from the facts around it. You should always be able to tell which is which.
Verified, not just updated
Look at the bottom of any page on this site and you’ll see: Last verified: [date] against [source].
That’s deliberate. “Last updated” is a meaningless phrase — it can mean somebody fixed a typo. “Last verified” means a human being went back to the statute, or the data, and read it again.
Our schedule: state law pages every six months, and immediately whenever a statute changes. Clinical and cost pages every twelve months, or whenever new survey data publishes. Everything else, annually. We run a full sweep every January and July — state legislatures move in predictable sessions, and two sweeps a year catches nearly all of it.
When something changes, we say so
We don’t quietly edit a paragraph and hope nobody notices.
When something material changes — a law, a rule, a price — it appears in a changelog on the page itself, dated, so you can see what changed and when. You can see one working today on our page tracking the CMS proposed rule on palliative care.
Nobody else in this category does this. We think that’s strange.
When we get it wrong
We will. Everyone who publishes does.
When we do, we correct it visibly — noted on the page, with a date, not scrubbed. If the error was serious enough to have misled someone, we say that too.
If you find a mistake, tell us. We’d rather be corrected than be trusted for the wrong reasons.
What money does — and doesn’t do
This site may earn revenue by connecting families with private-pay home care providers, and may earn commissions through some links. That’s disclosed on the pages where it happens.
Three rules, and they’re not negotiable:
1. We never take a fee for a referral to a service paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, or the VA. The federal Anti-Kickback Statute makes that a crime, and it should. We stay far away from the line.
2. A payment never changes what we tell you. The page that says Medicare mostly doesn’t cover home care is a bad sales pitch. It’s also the truth, and it stays.
3. Free things stay free. The care needs checklist. Every form. No email gate, no account, no lead form standing between you and something you need.
What we won’t do
We won’t gate a tool behind an email address. We won’t put a paid product in front of a free one that would serve you as well. And we won’t write a sentence we wouldn’t say to a family sitting at their own kitchen table.
Last reviewed: 13 July 2026 · Next review: 13 July 2027
Written by Mark Duda. Thirteen years running business development for one of New Jersey’s largest home health and hospice organizations. More about me →