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Home Health Certifications: An Update and Refresher
on 06/25/2014
As written in the July/August 2014 MD News
By, J. Ryan Williams, Partner, Brouse McDowell, LPABeginning on July 1, 2014, home health agencies are required to report the NPI number of the physician who certifies a patient’s need for home health services and the physician who signs the plan of care. This new requirement is intended to cover situations in which a physician attending to a patient in an acute or post-acute setting certifies the need for home health services and then “hands off” the patient to another physician for continued care.
Most of the time the same physician certifies the need for home health services and signs the plan of care. As such, this new requirement is not likely to cause any significant issues. Even so, the new billing requirement highlights the importance of the initial home health certifications and the appropriate documentation. Now may be a great time to review the home health certification requirements.
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Most of the time the same physician certifies the need for home health services and signs the plan of care. As such, this new requirement is not likely to cause any significant issues. Even so, the new billing requirement highlights the importance of the initial home health certifications and the appropriate documentation. Now may be a great time to review the home health certification requirements.
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