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Only 22% of Americans Have Documented End-of-Life Wishes

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A majority of people in the United States know the types of end-of-life care they wish to receive, but only 22% have documented their wishes. About 25% of those who have documented their wishes are white. The post Only 22% of Americans Have Documented End-of-Life Wishes appeared first on Hospice News. NYSE: CHE).

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

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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.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Can It Be Done? Strategies to Reduce Documentation Burden while Increasing Audit and Survey Readiness

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What I would say is make sure that whatever you’re doing for your clinicians as far as here, document this because we need it for such and such regulation. If you want to form a committee around what is the best way to improve that documentation again. Be very transparent with that. They will have a better home-life balance.

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3 Strategies for Hospice GIP Compliance

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Effective documentation The importance of complete and accurate documentation cannot be overstated. Errors and omissions in clinical documentation are the leading cause of audit and survey deficiencies, as well as claims denials when it comes to GIP. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Skehan indicated.

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3 Keys to Hospice Oversight Preparation

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This can be a challenge, especially when it comes to documentation. Strategy #1: Evaluate your staff’s documentation habits Everything begins at documentation, and that means hospice providers have to establish a baseline for the accuracy and speed of their documentation. It wasn’t meeting minimal standards.

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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

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A clinician may not not have realized they were acting contrary to patients’ wishes due to insufficient training, documentation errors or process breakdowns. . They know the patient’s wishes were documented but chose to ignore them. In other instances, a health care provider acts deliberately.

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Hospices Leverage Technology to Improve Patient, Employee Satisfaction, Reduce Turnover 

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A frequent goal is reducing the amount of time spent on documentation. Though complete and accurate documentation is essential to regulatory compliance, patient safety and securing payment, the sheer amount of it is taxing for staff. Among the dissatisfiers is the encroachment of documentation into clinicians personal lives.

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