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Medicare Adds 800,000 F2Fs A Year To HHAs' Workload

Watch out if you carry a heavy managed care patient load. How you currently handle hospitalizations, PEPs and readmissions will determine how much a new F2F clarification burdens you in the new year. In the 2015 home health prospective payment system final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services makes a change to when it re-quires face-to-face physician encounters [...]
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