MO-Jamie Seifert

Document ID: CMS-2011-0133-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: July 29 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 1 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 12 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: September 12 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80ecf940
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicaid Program; Face-to-Face Requirements for Home Health Services: Policy Changes and Clarifications Related to Home Health

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More and more physicians are hospital employed. Our agency is a dept of the hospital. Clarification about why a hospital employed physician can not complete a face to face document on a home health patient our agency will serve when the patient is given choice by the hospital would be appreciated. Please consider very clear documentation requirements for when a hospitalist would complete a face to face document and report off to the attending physician who would sign the orders. It will be difficult for HH agencies to require a physician to do this if it is not a regulation that impacts them.