Industry Note:
Turn To This Resource For F2F Answers
Published on Tue Aug 02, 2011
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 [...]