tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 42

Hospice: Physicians' Face To Face Encounters of Hospice Patients Start In Just A Few Weeks

At least you can sometimes bill for the visits.Hospices soon will begin taking a financial hit on their longstay patients, thanks to the new face to face (FFE) encounter requirements effective Jan. 1. But the new mandate, which requires a hospice physician or nurse practitioner to conduct a FFE with a hospice patient prior to her third and subsequent recertifications, will hit hospices' bottom line even sooner than that -- in just a few short weeks.Why? Although the FFE requirement takes effect Jan. 1, hospices have 30 days before the start of a patient's third benefit period...

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