Hospices have been under more scrutiny in the past five years than in the history of hospice.   The Office of Inspector General released report in July 2018 that identified vulnerabilities in the program from hospices not providing needed services to poor management of symptoms.  OIG found the current payment system incentives hospice to seek beneficiaries who have uncomplicated needs and to over utilize higher levels of care.    Further studies by OIG in 2019 identified that surveyors from state or accrediting organizations found over 80% of hospice have at least one deficiency with the most common deficiency involving poor care planning and inadequate assessments.

Poor care planning and assessments are often the result of poor documentation.   In this webinar we will identify documentation requirements from admission to bereavement.  We will examine the requirements for documentation to meet CoP and billing requirements for each level of care – routine, respite, continuous and general inpatient care, we will identify how to document your interdisciplinary team meetings and how to document bereavement assessments and care plans.  We will discuss the most commonly used standardized assessment tools and how these tools can be used to support hospice eligibility