QA nurses and missed visits

[LearningRN]

I work as a QA nurse in Tx for the first time and I am being asked to write "missed visit" notes for the nurses that don't turn in their notes so that the frequency is met and the home health can bill for the cert episode. They say that it's a very common practice for QA nurses to do that. Is that true? Am I risking my license for writting a "missed visit" note? Thanks.

[Starrbelie123]

I am the scheduler for my Home Health and Hospice agency. We do all our charting on PDA's. If a visit is sent back without a missed visit note, I send the visit right back to their PDA. Same thing if they miss a visit at the first of the week and there is time to make it up. I just keep sending it back to them until they do something with it. But, I must say I work with a great bunch of nurses. Most of the time if they haven't done something it's just oversite and my sending it back is a gentle reminder.

[certwndnrs]

The biller should catch all missed encounters during pre-edit. They can then print a list of all missed encounters along with the clinician assigned. Each clinician should be responsible filling out a missed visit note. Its easy to forget to fill one out but it can be caught and there is no excuse for QA to be responsible for this.