tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 31

Home Health Care: Docs Must See DMEPOS Patients Face To Face

But you won't get paid for these visitsA new Medicare requirement places physicians squarely between a rock and a hard place. The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to require physicians to see patients face-to-face when prescribing all items of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies. But Medicare won't pay for a physician visit whose sole purpose is prescribing DMEPOS. That means if a patient needs a new crutch, cane, hospital bed, wheelchair or oxygen concentrator at home, he or she will have to go to the doctor's office. But you won't get paid for...

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