Medicare Compliance Series: Hospice Nurses & Aides

Description

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This program will address hospice aide compliance and requirements and is a great opportunity for initial training, onboarding, or a refresher for RNs new to hospice.

Learn about documentation, including required assessments, visit notes, and how congruent documentation and the narrative are critical to support terminality and meet Medicare guidelines. Don’t let common compliance and documentation challenges put your agency at financial and survey risk.

AFTER THIS WEBINAR YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

Provide required documentation that supports Medicare hospice eligibility and ongoing terminality

Explain the benefits of working with the LCDs when assessing, documenting, and reporting patient status in IDG

Understand the importance of congruent documentation throughout the hospice election benefit

Distinguish between chronic versus terminal and how to document decline

Identify key compliance challenges and risks related to hospice aide services

Uncover common areas of risk impacted by documentation