Face To Face:
CMS Places Onus of Ensuring Appropriate Documentation On HHAs
Published on Thu Nov 20, 2014
F2F here to stay for a while. The face-to-face encounter is necessary to reduce fraud and abuse in home health utilization, says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These problems have decreased since the face-to-face physician encounter requirement took effect, CMS says. When CMS proposed to eliminate the overwhelmingly troublesome physician narrative F2F requirement in July, home health [...]