While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services claims home health agencies will have to issue NEMBs every time services are reduced or terminated, that's not strictly the case. In supporting paperwork for the proposed notice of exclusions from Medicare benefits, CMS reveals a number of exceptions to the rule.
"The positive news is that there are instances when agencies will terminate services and will have no obligation to provide notice," notes Burtonsville, MD-based health care attorney Elizabeth Hogue. "There are appropriate exceptions included in the instructions for use of the forms."
Those exceptions include when: