Home Health & Hospice Week

Conditions of Participation:

Care Termination CoPs Hold Some Disappointments

Not meeting F2F requirements should be ‘exceptionally rare,’ CMS says in CoPs final rule. The hot-button issue of terminating a patient’s care has plagued home health agencies under the prospective payment system, and even before. The updated Conditions of Participation effective July 13 aim to address the area of controversy. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sets out [...]
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