Hospice Nurse Hero
JANUARY 26, 2022
Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Do you spend hours documenting at home? Worse yet, do you find yourself frustrated when “corporate” only seems to care about timely documentation? Documentation is king!!
Hospice Nurse Hero
MARCH 6, 2024
This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. Requires assistance with ADLs. I’ll be honest.
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Hospice Nurse Hero
AUGUST 21, 2022
When this happens, you’ll want to use these tips to document the hospice recertification with ease. While the nurse practitioner can perform the face-to-face visit, it is up to the hospice medical director to review the documentation and certify the patient still meets hospice criteria. Use Comparison Documentation.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” One example is a CTI. They love doing it.
The Productive Home Health Nurse
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This is solely due to demand and the availability of Medicare and other funding for home health services. Just to give you an idea of the volume involved, In 2007 there were 9,024 Medicare home health agencies , and by 2017 that number had increased to 11, 593 agencies.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Sarguni: And I think the inadequacies of the Medicare hospice benefit really come into play here because a lot of times people are not sure if they want to get more cancer treatments. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die.
Home Care Pulse
JUNE 27, 2023
Now, for those of us in home care, you know, we know original Medicare is not a payer for us. Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? Are they safe? Do they need any equipment? What tool will you use?
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