According to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 6407, home health patients are required to have a physician face-to-face encounter in order to qualify for Medicare home health services. The statutory language requires that prior to certification “the physician must document that the physician himself or herself has had a face-to-face encounter (including…
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