Documentation from Referral to disharge is required to meet there conditions of payment. Increasingly so, there payer sources are scrutinizing hospice agency entries by all staff and volunteers. Denials are based on lack of appropriate and accurate documentation. This concurrent session is intended for all disciplines

Learning Outcomes

Discuss best practices that support documentation of patient decline. List clinical symptoms that support hospice eligibility for common primary terminal diagnoses. Differentiate between chronic and terminal. Define the risk of inaccurate, untimely, and incomplete documentation by all members of the IDG team.