Audit outpatient cardiac rehab to verify compliance
Health Care Auditing Strategies, October 1, 2005
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Outpatient cardiac rehab areas must have a physician stationed nearby at all times-on-call code teams will not fulfill Medicare regulations.
If you are unsure about whether your facility meets this or other outpatient cardiac rehabilitation rules, you may want to investigate further. The OIG Work Plan has featured cardiac rehab annually since 2003. Still, many providers are confused when sorting through Medicare coverage rules.
Pat Comoss, RN, BS, FAACVPR, a consultant and member of the national reimbursement committee for the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR), and Sandra Zemke, RN, metro region cardiac rehabilitation supervisor at Aurora Health Care in the Milwaukee area, reviewed cardiac rehabilitation rules during a recent HCPro audioconference, "Outpatient Cardiac Rehab: Review and Recommendations to Comply in Trying Times."
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