Report: March 18 Meeting with CMS on Face-to-Face Encounter Requirements

A meeting was held with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last Friday to present and discuss a request to further extend postponement of the home health face-to-face encounter requirements’ enforcement. A written request had earlier been submitted seeking this additional postponement at least through July 1, 2011 (NAHC Report, 3/14/11). A coalition…