Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. Requires assistance with ADLs.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

AUGUST 21, 2022

RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG Top Time Wasters & How to Avoid Them. ADLS : dependent in all ADLs; frequently agitated; occasionally delusional. INTERVENTIONS: patient needs additional HHA time due to inability to perform all ADLs, previously she was able to assist with ADLs.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

When you don’t document, Medicare doesn’t pay. Think of it this way, if Medicare repeatedly denies payment, then you might not get that raise you deserve. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. Document using hospice scales: Medicare uses scales to determine eligibility.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Eric: I felt that reading the article.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is sponsored by nVoq. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. So thank you, Margot.

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