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Don't Waste Your Face To Face Encounter Delay Time

Published on Fri Jan 14, 2011

Just because CMS postponed enforcement doesn't mean you get a 3-month free pass. Working the kinks out of your face to face encounter processes is going to take a while, so you'd better get started before your Medicare payment is at stake. Right before Christmas, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave contractors instructions to delay enforcement of the FFE requirement for both home health agencies and hospices until April 1 (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XX, No. 1, p. 2). Regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA notified providers of the delay in late December, and NHIC and Palmetto GBA followed with provider announcements early this month. The delay is "good news" for agencies, since they "definitely need more time to get processes in place to comply with the new requirements," observes consultant Aaron Little with BKD in Springfield, Mo. "Most of the feedback we've received so far is that [...]
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