Is your hospice team confident in identifying eligible patients — and documenting it correctly?
Join us for this beginner-friendly and refresher course to explore best practices to determine Medicare hospice eligibility, avoid audits and recoupments, reduce revocations, and protect your hospice agency compliance program.

KEY WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS:

• Medicare hospice eligibility and criteria for appropriate admissions
• Election of Benefits and Patient Notification of Non-Covered Items, Services, and Drugs
• Documentation required to support a Medicare hospice admission
• LCD guidelines to determine qualifying hospice diagnoses
• Problematic admissions that could trigger audits or recoupments

BONUS MATERIALS  

• Hospice LCD guidelines
• Model example: Hospice Election Statement
• Model example: Patient Notification of Hospice Non-Covered Items, Services, and Drugs
• Hospice terminal prognosis criteria for stroke and coma, pulmonary disease, heart disease, and dementia due to Alzheimer’s

WEBINAR DETAILS: Hospice 101 will guide participants through the process of identifying appropriate hospice admissions, with a focus on Medicare eligibility requirements. The session will cover hospice admission documentation, including both technical and clinical requirements, as well as the LCD guidelines and critical agency documentation needed to support terminality. Ensuring appropriate hospice admissions helps agencies avoid Medicare recoupments, revocations, and other compliance challenges.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: Hospice

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Agencies experiencing post-payment ADRs
• New hospice agencies under enhanced oversight (PPEO), new hospice staff
• Marketing personnel
• Intake staff
• Admission nurses
• DOPCS
• Compliance Officers
• Clinical supervisors
• QA
• Hospice owners and administrators
• CEO/CFO