Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Medicare Administrative Contractor To Address F2F Probe & Educate In Call
Published on Fri Apr 08, 2016
If you’re as confused about Face-To-Face requirements as many HHAs, you can find out more about the Probe & Educate medical review campaign focusing on the issue — if Palmetto GBA is your HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor.
Palmetto’s April 14 Ask the Contractor Teleconference (ACT) at 2 p.m. ET will address P&E, among other pressing topics, the MAC notes. Providers may call into the teleconference at 1-800-374-0740 with code 77102157, the MAC says in its notice. You can submit questions five or more days before the ACT by using an “Ask the Contractor Teleconference (ACT): Submit A Question” form at www.palmettogba.com/hhh/forms under the “Provider & Outreach Education” section.
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