tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 4

Home Health Face-To-Face: F2F Puts HHAs' Payment At Stake

New form may reduce error rate. Home health agencies are still struggling with face-to-face encounter requirements. It’s the physician who must supply the F2F documentation, but if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finds the record lacking, the HHA pays the price. HHAs are distressed about the vague face-to-face physician encounter documentation requirements that took effect Jan. 1. That’s when CMS nixed the F2F physician narrative for most patients and instead said a patient’s home care eligibility would be determined based on the physician’s clinical record. In a December Open Door Forum, CMS...

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