by Liz Seegert As we previously reported, CMS blinked first in the face of NAHC attorney Bill Dombi’s lawsuit over the Face-to-Face documentation rule. The agency’s response, proposing to eliminate the physician’s narrative portion from the F2F document, seems like the relief home care providers have been hoping for, on the surface. However, several readers […]
“Suffocated” “Frustrated” “Nervous” “Frightened” We asked readers whether they had noticed an uptick in the frequency of payment denials, ADRs, ZPIC audits and dings for documentation errors. Your answers revealed that there is a lot of frustration out there, and it has two sources: frustration with commission-hungry Medicare contractors who find errors where there are […]
