Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Turn To This Resource For F2F Answers

You might not always like what the HHH MAC is telling you, however. Don't waste your time with an extra face-toface visit when you don't have to. That's the takeaway from a recent questionand- answer issued by Medicare Administrative Contractor NHIC. "If a home health patient is admitted twice within the same 90-day period for the same reason, can the first face-to-face encounter documentation be used for both admissions?" asked a home health agency in NHIC's Aug. 3 Ask the Contractor Teleconference. "In this instance, the same face-to-face encounter could be utilized for both home health admissions," NHIC replies in the ACT summary. But home health agencies may not like another of NHIC's answers to a F2F question quite as much. "If a home health patient was scheduled to have the face-to-face encounter on day 10, but transferred to hospice on day eight, and is now refusing to go to [...]
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