HOME HEALTH: Patient Discharge Rule Confounding - And Pending
Every discharged patient must be issued notice.A massive new paperwork mandate requiring HHAs to issue a notice to every single patient they discharge is ready to land this summer, and it's as confusing as ever. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has submitted its new termination and expedited review forms to the Office of Management and Budget for approval, according to a CMS notice in the April 29 Federal Register. The notices are virtually unchanged from the forms CMS issued in conjunction with its final rule on the matter last November.Warning: The new termination notices will...
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