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Medical Director Dr. Lauren Templeton: How Engaged Hospice Physicians Can Drive Quality, Compliance

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Lauren Templeton began her medical career in a surgical internship before transitioning to internal medicine. Templeton now is a hospice physician consultant at Weatherbee Resources as well as medical director for Texas-based Hendrick Hospice Care. What qualities or characteristics would such a person possess?

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2025 Proposed Rule Seeks to Clarify Physician Certification of Hospice Patients

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According to language in the proposal, designated physician members of the hospice interdisciplinary team may certify patients for hospice if the medical director is unavailable. Compliance on certification and associated documentation is crucial. But the potential confusion didn’t stop there.

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Voices: Deanna Heath, VP of Hospice and Palliative Care Services, KanTime

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Hospice would likely change from the Medical Director-led IDT team with standard COPS, to a landscape of payer-source-driven rules for each patient. KanTime can capture affiliated providers, documents and palliative care-to-hospice transitions seamlessly by overlaying medical records for easy reference.

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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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New Executives Tapped At Hospice Organizations Across Country

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Muir also has served as the medical director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations’ (CMMI) high-needs Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) program. Muir joined the organization in 2019 as its chief of clinical innovations.

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Transparency Essential to Hospice Compliance in 2024

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Their recommendation is that it would include the administrator and medical director of hospice agencies.” We’ve heard the importance of documentation numerous times, but it’s following up with how to identify that something is a problem so you can make corrections.”

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2 Innovative Drivers ‘Reimaging’ Hospice Care

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Others have delved deeper into Programs for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) programs, telehealth services, durable medical equipment and medication management, among other areas. Technology is playing a larger role in hospices’ ability to address clinical capacity strains amid evolving patient needs, she said. NYSE: CHE).