Home Health Face-To-Face:
F2F Puts HHAs' Payment At Stake
Published on Mon Feb 16, 2015
New form may reduce error rate. Home health agencies are still struggling with face-to-face encounter requirements. It’s the physician who must supply the F2F documentation, but if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finds the record lacking, the HHA pays the price. HHAs are distressed about the vague face-to-face physician encounter documentation requirements that took effect Jan. 1. [...]