Addendum to 485 Plan of Care Face to Face Encounter Form

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well the face-to-face requirement is a requirement from CMS it's a CMS requirement that 90 days before patient is is entered into home health care or 30 days after that the patient has to be seen in a face-to-face encounter with a physician that has to be documented one of the things we want to make sure of is that patients that need quality home health care services get quality home healthcare services have access to that so the face-to-face requirement really shouldn't be a burden to you it is a requirement but you already have prepared that information when you see a patient and refer that patient to home health care you complete a progress note that has everything we need because you talked about why you're referring the patient to home health care you talk about what the skill need they that they had is if you sent the patient over my hospital the discharge summary has that information and if you've made that referral so you don't have to do any extra work we just have to have tha