Home Health & Hospice Week

Medical Review:

Beef Up Documentation To Avoid Medical Necessity Pitfalls

Be sure to cover all your technical bases, too. The physician face-to-face encounter re-quirement may account for the lion’s share of home health agency claims denials these days, but longstanding denial reasons are still important too. HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA recently denied an extremely high rate of claims for F2F under two therapy-focused probes (see related story, p. [...]
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