Who can complete a SWO

5.2.3 –Who can complete a SWO (Rev. 10190; Issued: 06-19-2020; Effective: 01-01-2020; Implementation: 07-01- 2020) \Statute requires that the treating practitioner who conducts the qualifying face-to-face encounter for Power Mobility Devices (PMDs) also prepare the SWO for the PMD base. For items other than PMDs appearing on the Required Face-to-Face and Written Order Prior to Delivery List, the treating practitioner who conducts the face-to-face encounter does not need to be the prescriber of the DMEPOS items— so long as the prescribing practitioner has knowledge of, and documentation to support (e.g., face-to- face), the condition that requires his or her writing an order/prescription. For non-PMD items, and PMD separately billed accessories, certain elements of the order/prescription may be completed by someone other than the treating practitioner, so long as the treating practitioner identified in the order, via their name or national provider identifier (NPI), signs the document.