30 day medicaid summary?

[nurseinmo]

Does anyone know anything about doing 30 day summaries for medicaid? I am fairly new to HH and was recently told I need to go back and do 30 day summaries on all my mcd patients....billing says that we don't need them anymore but I want to be sure.

Thanks for any input!

[caliotter3]

Most of my patients have been medicaid patients and I've never been asked to do a summary on them.

[nurseinmo]

Thank you so much! I have looked everywhere and have yet to find anything that says this is required but wanted to see if it was something I was missing.

[KateRN1]

Are you sure they're Medicaid and not Medicare? We require 30-day summaries for Medicare patients.

[nurseinmo]

Yes the ones I am thinking of are Medicaid only patients. we only do initial, 60 day, and d/c summaries for the Medicare patients. Apparently the story goes that it was sort of a "billing" thing that they weren't paying so the agency would send along with the paper bill a summary of everything that had been done and that "fixed" the problem of getting them to pay. Now they are doing e-billing though and it hasn't been a problem so I am thinking that it is probably just an agency specific thing and that we don't need it anymore.