tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 18

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Medicare has finally loosened up on some unnecessarily strict documentation requirements for face-to-face encounters with physicians who are certifying home health. But just how loose the rules have gotten is under debate.In a new MLN Matters article, "A Physician's Guide to Medicare's Home Health Certification, including the Face-to-Face Encounter," CMS gives its official approval to physicians using checkboxes in their documentation of the F2F encounter. "The face-to-face documentation can include, or exist as, checkboxes so long as it comes from the certifying physician," CMS states.This is an about-face from earlier CMS statements, which said checkboxes...

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