NAHC Provides Recommendations for Complying with New Face-to-Face Rules

In the final rule for the 2015 home health prospective payment rate update, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the face-to-face (F2F) encounter requirements for physician certification for home health services. In the rule, CMS eliminated the narrative requirement, which required the certifying physician to provide a detailed explanation on why the…