Federal Court Rules In Favor of Medicare While Restricting Scope of F2F Narrative: Federal Court Decision Could Limit Medicare Power to Deny Claims Based on F2F Narrative Content

U.S District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued his decision today in the lawsuit brought by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) challenging the validity of the Medicare rule that a physician provide a narrative to document the face-to-face encounter with the patient. Judge Cooper ruled against NAHC and granted “Summary Judgment” to…