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Use These 9 Pointers To Smooth Your FFE Transition

Published on Tue Oct 12, 2010

Start identifying your December encounters now. You have a huge amount of work to do in order to be ready to comply with Medicare’s new face to face encounter requirement for hospice, which takes effect Jan. 1. Despite repeated requests for a delay from hospice providers who commented on the proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says it’s bound by law to begin the FFE requirement Jan. 1, according to the home health prospective payment system final rule scheduled for publication in the Nov. 17 Federal Register. “Keep in mind having a valid recertification is a statutory requirement for coverage and payment,” stresses consultant Roseanne Berry with R&C Healthcare Solutions in Phoenix. “And the FFE is now part of the statutory requirements for recertifications. … The stakes are high.” Don’t expect to get a last-minute reprieve from CMS, either. “The January deadline is nonnegotiable, so failure is [...]
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