Changes to Medicare regarding home therapies and face to face visits
Please access the FNPN website to read this article regarding home health and face to face visits. I find this interesting as NPs can not prescribe or maintain home health for our patients only our supervising physicians can perform this task. Maybe this change to Medicare will help NPs to finally be able to prescribe home health for our patients.
Announcement: New Medicare Rule: Face to Face Encounter
New CMS Home Health Care Requirement for Physicians: Face to Face Encounter We are contacting you to inform you of a new requirement that will affect physicians that order, and the patients that they refer, for Medicare home health services. In accord with the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, CMS issued a Final Regulation that goes into effect April 1, 2011 (first published January 1, 2011) whereby Medicare will pay for home health services only when a patient has had a fa...