Home Health & Hospice Week

CMS issues clarification in new therapy fact sheet. Without Medicare manual instructions on how to implement new therapy reassessment requirements when they're required April 1, the joke could be on you. But now the feds have issued some informal instructions that may help. Reader Question: How do I know when the new therapy reassessment visit is required? The final rule says at the 13th and 19th visits, but how do you count the visits? Answer: Look no further than the "Therapy Requirements Fact Sheet" the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently posted to its website. "While changes to Publication 100-02, Chapter 7, Home Health Services are pending, the following information related to therapy requirements contained in the Calendar Year 2011 Final Home Health Rule is being provided to assist HHAs and therapists with these requirements that are effective April 1, 2011," the sheet says. "Where more than one discipline [...]