Coalition of Organizations Asks CMS for Further Enforcement Delay of Face-to-Face Encounter Requirements

Noting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision late last year to delay enforcement of face-to-face encounter requirements for home health until April 1, 2011 (NAHC Report , 1/5/11), a coalition including the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and 12 other groups says that a further enforcement delay is necessary.…