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Posting Date: 06/07/2021
Eligibility Criteria for Face-to-Face Encounters
Eligibility Criteria for Face-to-Face Encounters National Government Services is reminding home health providers that a face-to-face encounter form is not adequate documentation to support that a face-to-face encounter occurred. [...]
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Posting Date: 02/08/2021
Wound Care Under the Medicare Home Health Benefit
Wound Care Under the Medicare Home Health Benefit Wound care treatment typically involves three skilled nursing interventions, which may be performed at the same time or separately from each other. The three services are: Performing the [...]
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Posting Date: 05/11/2020
Home Health Plans of Care: NPs, CNSs and PAs Allowed to Certify
Home Health Plans of Care: Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Physician Assistants Allowed to Certify Section 3708 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Pub. L. No. 116-136) amended sections [...]
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Posting Date: 11/30/2020
Homebound Status
Homebound Status A Medicare beneficiary must be confined to the home in order to use their Medicare home health benefit. CMS defines homebound status in the CMS IOM Publication 100-02, Medicare Benefit Policy [...]
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