tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 25

Documentation: Doctors' Face-to-Face Requirement Could Do An About-Face

By 2015, your face-to-face requirement might be a thing of the past. The Physician Fee Schedule wasn’t the only proposal that CMS released last week—and one section in particular of the home health prospective payment system proposed rule could make your doctors’ lives a little easier. In the document, CMS announces plans to end the controversial physician narrative portion of the face-to-face (F2F) requirement for home health certification. “In an effort to simplify the face-to-face encounter regulations, reduce burden for HHAs and physicians, and to mitigate instances where physicians and HHAs unintentionally fail to comply with...

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