Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Hello, home care! 4/1/2011 marks the start date of several important Medicare changes for the home care setting – one is the physician face to face certification and the second is the new rehab therapy documentation requirements and time points. Pasted below is a Medicare posting regarding MD [...]
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Home health care has a number of new regulations in 2011 and CMS is providing information to help agencies and staff meet these new rules. See http://www.cms.gov/center/hha.asp for information on physician Face to Face requirements, including HHABN process should the physician visit not occur in a timely manner. [...]
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Pasted here is a Medscape article summarizing the release this week of the updated Falls Guidelines from the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society. The revised guidelines update the original Falls guidelines from 2001. The multifactorial guidelines are endorsed by many groups such as the AMA, [...]
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Home Health care in 2011 has another new abbreviation – F2F (Face to Face) – to reflect the required MD face to face patient encounter documentation needed in home care as a result of provisions in the Affordable Care Act. CMS posted a letter on 12/23/2010 to Senate [...]
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT If you are working in the home health care setting, you have probably already heard the buzz about the new PPS changes for 2011. The revised rules cover many areas such as case-mix, payments for outlier and LUPA cases, wage index and more and offered therapy clarifications. Therapy [...]