Documentation:
Physician Documentation Requirement Could Cause Hospice Access Problems
Published on Fri May 05, 2017
Your payment could depend on the referring physician’s medical record. Compared to their home health agency colleagues, hospices have had a relatively smooth time with the physician face-to-face encounter mandate. But soon they may encounter an equally disastrous physician documentation requirement, if CMS follows through on the line of thinking it reveals in the 2018 proposed rule for hospice payment. [...]