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Use These 4 Tips To Sidestep F2F, Therapy Compliance Pitfalls

Published on Wed Apr 27, 2011

Cast a compliance eye on the new regulatory requirements that hit April 1. Don't get so caught up in the operational and billing details of the new therapy and face-toface rules that you risk your compliance record. Many home health agencies are still grappling with the burdensome F2F and therapy reassessment rules that went into effect April 1. "Agencies have gotten caught up in trying to get physicians on board," observes attorney Robert Markette Jr. with Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis. "The number-one complaint I am hearing is that the agencies can't get the physicians to do the necessary paperwork." That's been the experience of Holy Name Home Care & Hospice in Teaneck, N.J., reports Mary Ann Quirk, the agency's clerical and billing liaison. Physicians just send the 485 paperwork back with the F2F requirements ignored, Quirk tells Eli. Bright spot: The agency's parent hospital will begin requiring F2F paperwork, [...]
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