Medicare Compliance Series

This Medicare compliance series begins with the hospice medical director, physician member of the IDG, and NP/PA. It will address the regulations, recent regulatory clarifications, who can certify terminally ill patients, and the role within the IDT/IDG. Both technical and clinical requirements for Medicare hospice eligibility will be reviewed as well as documentation to support both eligibility and ongoing terminality, including the physician narrative and F2F. All hospice medical directors, hospice physicians, NPs/PAs, and directors should attend this detailed webinar discussing roles, responsibilities, and complying with the regulations.

This session will review the roles of hospice RNs and aides. Frequent areas of survey challenges deal with hospice aides, supervision, and the hospice plan of care. Documentation, including assessments, what is required, and how to document to support terminality will be covered. This includes addressing common compliance and documentation challenges. The webinar will also review high-risk admissions, how to use the LCDs in documentation, understanding the levels of care, required documentation, and common practices that put agencies at both survey and financial risk and how to avoid them.

Join us for a review of the role of social workers, counselors, spiritual caregivers, and chaplains as per the regulations and within the IDG/IDT. These roles can add value to an agency’s quality reporting and the patient experience. You’ll learn ways to increasingly use these valuable team members because visits at critical times in the patient process can increase quality and reimbursement measures and agency opportunities.

The hospice volunteer program is a core service, and surveyors are expecting to see volunteer programs in full swing again, post pandemic. Join us to learn about the roles of the hospice volunteer director/manager, volunteers, and what activities meet the 5% requirement. The requirements of a Medicare hospice volunteer training program will be covered, and FAQs will reveal who can be a volunteer, what does and does not qualify for volunteer activities, and many other answers.

This five-part compliance series will conclude with a review of the bereavement requirements and counseling as a core hospice service. It will cover key regulations for bereavement care, including who is qualified to provide bereavement services. Program structure will be reviewed, including best practices for a bereavement program. This presentation will identify all areas where bereavement risk can be identified, discussed, and addressed and will answer bereavement FAQs.