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Medicaid F2F Requirement Looms On Your Horizon

Published on Wed Apr 27, 2011

If you haven't seen a physician face-toface requirement for home health and/or hospice in your state's Medicaid program yet, you won't have too long to wait. "A Medicaid home health face-to-face proposed rule is now awaiting clearance from the Office of Management and Budget and is expected to be published early this summer," reports the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. A number of states including Iowa, Ohio, Delaware, and Maine have implemented F2F requirements for Medicaid home health services already, NAHC notes in its member newsletter. NAHC "urges home health agencies to watch for this proposed rule and submit their recommendations," it says. Comments based on agencies' experiences with the Medicare requirement could be very effective.
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