Home Health care in 2011 has another new abbreviation – F2F\u00a0 (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 Act.<\/p>\n
CMS posted a letter on 12\/23\/2010 to Senate and House key committees and other interested parties noting that\u00a0full compliance with MD\u00a0F2F encounters will not be expected until the 2nd quarter of 2011.<\/p>\n
A portion of the CMS letter is pasted here:<\/p>\n
From:\u00a0Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n Re:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Additional Time to Establish Protocols for Newly Required Face-to-Face Encounters for Home Health Certification and Hospice Recertification<\/strong><\/p>\n Due to concerns that some providers may need additional time to establish operational protocols necessary to comply with face-to-face encounter requirements mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for purposes of certification of a patient\u2019s eligibility for Medicare home health services and of recertification for Medicare hospice services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will expect full compliance with the requirements, beginning with the second quarter of CY2011. <\/em><\/p>\n End quote from CMS<\/em>.<\/p>\n Home health care is a highly regulated and complex care setting where you are\u00a0guaranteed hands-on, 1-to-1 patient treatments.\u00a0If your New Year’s goal is to work smarter, not harder in the home care setting,\u00a0then please join me at one of my seminars entitled “Home\u00a0Health Care: Advancing Your Skill Set”.<\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Eileen Bach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Entry By: Eileen Bach, PT, M.Ed, DPT Home Health care in 2011 has another new abbreviation – F2F\u00a0 (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 Act. CMS posted a letter on 12\/23\/2010 to Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t