CMS Provides Guidance on 30-Day Reassessment Requirements

Within the 2012 Home Health Prospective Payment (PPPS) rate update published in the Nov. 4, 2011 Federal Register were several Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responses to questions about therapy reassessment requirements. These are the CMS response to concerns about 30 day therapy reassessment requirements and counting therapy visits for scheduling reassessments. 30-Day…