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Feds Examine Subsequent SOC Episodes For F2F

Published on Thu Dec 18, 2014

Subsequent SOC episodes have different diagnosis about ¾ of the time, data reveal. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services used these 2012 statistics when promulgating the new switch from requiring face-to-face encounters and documentation for initial versus start-of-care episodes: • The average number of days between a partial episode payment (PEP) episode and a subsequent episode of care was [...]
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