CMS Reaffirms Position Limiting Home Health Agency Initial Contact to Clinical Staff

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently provided the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) with an opinion from its Office of General Council (OGC) regarding information found in the OASIS Q&As and a letter to NAHC. In these documents, CMS took the position that a home health agency non-clinical representative…