Section 325.20603. Medical visits to patients.

(1) A patient in a home shall be seen and, to the extent appropriate, shall be examined by a licensed physician at least once every 60 days, unless justified otherwise and documented by  the  attending physician in the patient's clinical record. At a minimum, a patient in a home shall be seen and, to the extent appropriate, shall be examined by the attending physician at least once in each 6-month period, and a record of each physician visit to a patient shall be recorded  with  pertinent  clinical observations in the patient's clinical record by the physician.

(2) Not later than at the time of admission of a patient, an attending physician shall be designated to be responsible for the medical care and supervision of the patient. This shall not preclude a patient from also receiving health services from  another provider of choice,  unless medically contraindicated.

History: 1981 AACS; 1983 AACS.