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Medicare Home Health 101
Q.1
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First Name
Last Name
Q.2
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Your Email Address
Q.3
Please enter your agency name and Zip Code below.
Agency Name
Zipcode
Q.4
Your patient was admitted without seeing a physician. 35 days have gone by and the MD still has not seen the patient. What should you do?
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Complete the Face to Face encounter for the physician and bring it to his office for signature.
Ask the MD to please sign the face to face encounter and back date it to fall within the 30 day time frame.
Discharge the patient. Readmit if the MD is willing to see the patient and complete documentation.
Document all attempts to contact the MD so that you can bill for the services.
Q.5
Which is true about physician signatures?
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The physician must date their signature
a date stamp prior to the date of billing by the home health agency will demonstrate to providers that you are billing correctly
If the physician's signature is illegible, he must print his name underneath
Effective Jan 1, 2011, Nurse Pracititioners may sign home health plans of care.
Q.6
When admitting the first patient from a new referral source, the agency should:
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Verify current licensure through the Medical Board
Verify the MD name in the OIG sanctions database
Ask the administrator or marketing staff to ask the MD for a signature card to be signed in front of a witness for future reference.
all of the above.
Q.7
Every order sent to the MD for signature should include all of the following except;
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discipline involved
Frequency
new medications
Duration
treatment modality.
Q.8
It is never appropriate to accept visit notes via fax for field staff.
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true
false
Q.9
Nurse Practitioners can perform the face to face encounter if co-signed by the physician.
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true
false
Q.10
Which is true about face to face to face encounters?
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The agency should prepare a brief narrative for the MD to use to describe services.
The medical director can sign another physician's face to face encounter if the physician who saw the patient is out of the country or ill.
Verbal communications to the agency about face to face encouters are NOT acceptable.
If the patient saw the MD for any reason in the 90 days prior to the face to face encounter, that office visit will suffice for the Home Health required face to face encounter.
Q.11
What is the upper limit of number of episodes a patient can receive?
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3.2
2.4
5
unlimited if qualifications are met and the patient is eligible
Q.12
Verbal orders should be cosigned by the MD prior to billing if at all possible.
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true
false
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