Documentation to Support Terminality & Meet Guidelines & Regulations

Description

Turn documentation challenges into compliance confidence!

Accurate documentation is key to supporting terminality and meeting hospice regulations. Attend this focused webinar to receive practical guidance through clear examples and real-world tips on how to document key technical and clinical details that back hospice eligibility, reduce denials, and boost compliance confidence — all while making your charting process easier and more defensible.

KEY WEBINAR TAKEAWAYS

• Critical nature of documented baseline assessments
• How to document progressive decline in comparative assessment summaries
• Chronic vs terminal disease states
• How to document to support terminality and meet the regulations

BONUS MATERIALS

• Audit tool to help agencies evaluate documentation to support terminality and meet regulations
• LCD guidelines
• Disease-specific guidelines

WEBINAR DETAILS

Chronic versus terminal documentation continues to challenge hospice providers. This presentation will focus on documenting to support progressive decline and a terminal trajectory while applying the LCDs. Attendees will learn the LCDs and clinical guidelines simplified, along with key hospice diagnoses and how to document to support Medicare hospice eligibility. The session will concentrate on certification, recertification, and the nursing assessment, and examples will be used to demonstrate how to document in all key technical and clinical areas to support terminality.

THIS WEBINAR WILL BENEFIT THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES:

• Hospice
• Palliative Care

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Medical directors, hospice physicians
• Director of patient care services
• Director of clinical services
• Clinical directors/supervisors
• Intake/admissions nurses
• QA/educators
• RN case managers

TAKE-AWAY TOOLKIT

• Employee training log
• Interactive quiz
• PDF of slides and speaker’s contact info for follow-up questions
• Attendance certificate provided to self-report CE credits

NOTE: All materials are subject to copyright. Transmission, retransmission, or republishing of any webinar to other institutions or those not employed by your institution is prohibited. Print materials may be copied for eligible participants only.

Presented By

Kathy Ahearn

ALECC, Inc.