by Eileen Bach | Apr 4, 2011 | All Blogs
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Hello, home care! 4/1/2011 marks the start date of several important Medicare changes for the home care setting – one is the physician face to face certification and the second is the new rehab therapy documentation...
by Eileen Bach | Mar 15, 2011 | All Blogs
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Home health care has a number of new regulations in 2011 and CMS is providing information to help agencies and staff meet these new rules. See http://www.cms.gov/center/hha.asp for information on physician Face to Face...
by Eileen Bach | Mar 10, 2011 | All Blogs
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT For my colleagues working in home health care and counting down until the April 1st new therapy PPS requirements, you may find the resource information on this web link helpful. http://www.fazzi.com/research-reports.html Fazzi is a...
by Eileen Bach | Jan 17, 2011 | All Blogs
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Pasted here is a Medscape article summarizing the release this week of the updated Falls Guidelines from the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society. The revised guidelines update the original Falls guidelines...
by Eileen Bach | Jan 5, 2011 | All Blogs
Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Home Health care in 2011 has another new abbreviation – F2F (Face to Face) – to reflect the required MD face to face patient encounter documentation needed in home care as a result of provisions in the Affordable Care...