This customizable document, Medical Necessity, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Care Corporate Compliance Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors.

Here is some sample content from Medical Necessity:

	POLICY: The supplier ensures that items and supplies provided to patients are appropriate, reasonable and necessary based on the patient's documented clinical status and are ordered by the treating physician or other authorized individual. PROCEDURE: All patients receiving items or supplies are evaluated on admission and at least every fourteen 14 days or more often if necessary thereafter to ensure the medical necessity of those items or supplies ordered by the treating physician or other authorized person. Evaluations are documented, reviewed by the clinical coordinator/supervisor and...
Second excerpt:
	...treating physician or other authorized person. Evaluations are documented, reviewed by the clinical coordinator/supervisor and included as a permanent part of the patient's medical record. The items or supplies are replaced or adjusted, in a timely manner, in response to changes in the patient's condition. SUBJECT: MEDICAL NECESSITY REFERENCE #2013 PAGE: 1 DEPARTMENT: HOME CARE OF: 1 EFFECTIVE: APPROVED BY: REVISED: ...