tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 9

Regulations: Home Care Providers Forge Ahead With F2F Implementation

Newly introduced legislation addresses face-to-face encounter problems. Home care providers may be working hard to comply with the physician face-to-face encounter rule after the April 1 enforcement date, but they're still looking for relief from the new burden. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice is tracking the results of the F2F requirement with a one-page survey providers fill out weekly. "The purpose of this tracking effort is to gather the data needed to support advocacy efforts to rescind and reform the face-to-face encounter requirement," NAHC says in its member newsletter. "The potential for doing so hinges...

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