tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 10

Face To Face: Bad Habits Of Physicians Come Back To Bite Home Health Agencies

Missing or insufficient documentation among top flaws. Ever since F2F became mandatory it has been a difficult issue for home health agencies as well as referring providers. A study conducted by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) shows just how complicated it is to meet this documentation requirement. In the 2011-to-2012 timeframe that the OIG studied for its new report, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and its contractors did very little review of F2F, the watchdog agency notes. But now the bad habits that physicians developed in the first few years of F2F are taking a...

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