CMS Updates Home Health Therapy Q&As

On February 28^th CMS updated the Therapy Questions and Answers.  This clarifies several issues regarding counting visits and assessment times.

1.  The classifications of Medicare covered and Medicare non-covered visits refer to how the visits would be reported on the claim.
2.  Home health agencies and therapist should not change the number of therapy visits a patient receives based on whether prior visits were covered or non-covered.
3. Patients should only receive the number of therapy visits called for in the patient’s plan of care.

For more information please utilize the following link.

http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/HomeHealthPPS/Downloads/Therapy_Questions_and_Answers.pdf