CMS Reviews Requirements for Home Healthcare Transfers

CMS has published an article that outlines Medicare requirements for healthcare providers — particularly physicians — who refer patients to home healthcare, order home healthcare services or certify patients' eligibility for Medicare home healthcare benefits, home health agencies and non-physician practitioners.

The Medicare Learning Network Matters article covers eight points physicians need to know about home healthcare:

1.    Requirements which must be met in order for a patient to quality for Medicare's home health benefit.
2.    Physician home health certification requirements.

 


3.    Timeframe for completion of the certification.
4.    Certification content requirements.
5.    Face-to-face requirements.
6.    Face-to-face documentation requirements.
7.    Who can perform the face-to-face encounter?
8.    Recertifications.

For a more in-depth look at these requirements, click here.

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