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Peruse These Medically Necessary Reasons For Home Health

Published on Thu Aug 18, 2022

Some of these may need reviewing with your clinicians. Frequent reasons for services may include, but are not limited to: 1) New onset or acute exacerbation of diagnosis. Include documentation to support signs and symptoms and the date of the new onset or acute exacerbation. 2) New and/or changed prescription medications. New medications: those the beneficiary has not taken recently, [...]
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