tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 18

Home Care: CMS Grants Some Assessment Flexibility

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has thrown home health agencies one bone in its recent memo on comprehensive assessments (see story, "Oasis Suspensions Add More Work For HHAs"). HHAs don't have to wait until days 55-60 to perform comprehensive assessments on non-Medicare, non-Medicaid patients unless they want to, CMS spells out in S&C-04-26. "The assessment may be performed any time up to and including the 60th day," CMS says."For example, if a non-Medicare/non-Medicaid patient's payer source requires a revised plan of care on day 50 of the episode, the clinician could conduct the...

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