Physician and Allowed Practitioner Orders and Verbal Orders

Sets out who may order home health services for the Agency's patients (physicians, podiatrists for the plan of care, and allowed practitioners: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and physician assistants, within their Missouri scope of practice), that drugs, services and treatments are given only as ordered, who may accept a verbal order, how it is read back, recorded, signed, dated and timed, the Agency's own time frame for the practitioner to authenticate it (14 days), and how unclear orders, standing orders and the Medicare and MO HealthNet signature rules are handled.