DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 3 (March)

NPP Report: NPPs, home health face-to-face visits and your practice

Having non-physician practitioners (NPP) conduct the newly required face-to-face visits for the initial certification of home health services may save your practice time and money.  
“I don’t know why a physician wouldn’t have a [NPP] do the visit,” said Ann Rambusch, who heads her own home health consulting firm in Round Rock, Texas. “It frees up the physician’s time.”
 

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