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Hospice Certification Order Certificate of Terminal Illness 2025

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The document is a Hospice Certification Order and Certificate of Terminal Illness, which includes patient information, consent for hospice care, requested services, terminal diagnosis, comorbidities, and certification statements from physicians regarding the patient's terminal illness and life expectancy. It outlines the process for admitting a patient to hospice services.

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What is required to qualify for hospice?

and meet all of these conditions: Your hospice doctor and your regular doctor (if you have one) docHub that youre terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less). You accept comfort care (palliative care) instead of care to cure your illness.

What documentation is required for hospice certification?

Documentation must include the date of the encounter, an attestation by the physician or nurse practitioner that he/she had an encounter with the beneficiary. If the encounter was done by a nurse practitioner, he/she must attest that clinical findings were provided to the docHubing physician.

How to document for hospice?

Documentation must be objective. We are to document what we: see, hear, smell, touch, measure and identify as deviant from normal. Insurance payors may reject payment and may force us to discontinue care for those who need our care, if visible decline or deterioration of health is not visible in our documentation.

Which hospice professional determines a patient is terminally ill?

Since only the hospice medical director/ hospice physician provides certification for the 2nd 90 day and all 60 day periods, this means only the hospice medical director/hospice physician will compose the narrative. Face-to-face (F2F) encounter and attestation (for 3rd and all subsequent benefit periods).

What must be included in the documentation for certification of terminal illness?

A brief narrative, written by the docHubing physician, explaining the clinical findings that support the patients life expectancy of six months or less. This narrative can be a part of the certification/recertification form or as an addendum to the form.

What is an example of hospice certification of terminal illness?

A statement that the patient is terminally ill with a life expectancy of 6 months or less if the terminal illness runs its normal course; - Example: I docHub that (beneficiarys name) is terminally ill with a life expectancy of six months or less if the terminal illness runs its normal course.

Hospice Certification Order Certificate of Terminal Illness 2025

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