Home Health & Hospice Week

Docs get inconsistent messages about the new face-to-face requirement. Getting physicians on board for the new face-to-face encounter requirement is like herding cats, and it will be home care providers who have to fill the corral. "This issue is sending some folks over the edge," exclaims Casey Blumenthal with the Montana Hospital Association's home care division. "It is really quite absurd and impractical, especially in our more remote areas." Home care providers are all over the board in their FFE implementation efforts, reports Marcia Tetterton with the Virginia Association for Home Care & Hospice. Usually larger institutional providers are quicker to come into compliance with new requirements. But "surprisingly, those that are in larger health systems are receiving a lot of push back from their own organization's physician groups," which is delaying compliance, Tetterton tells Eli. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' announcement that enforcement of the requirement would [...]