Home Health Medications: What's Actually in the Cabinet | Episode 89

Lexcura Clinical Insights · Oct 21, 2026 · 14m

Episode four of the medication harm series is the patient's home, a setting most attorneys don't think of for medication cases because the home health nurse isn't administering the drugs.

Michelle Carroll explains where the liability lives instead. A patient comes home from the hospital with a new medication list while the old bottles are still in the cabinet. Some drugs were stopped, some changed, some replaced. Federal conditions of participation require the home health nurse to do a comprehensive medication review at the first visit, which means looking at every bottle and reconciling…