As the health care industry’s most comprehensive library of customizable policy and procedure templates, MCN Healthcare’s Home Infusion Therapy Policy and Procedure Manual includes this customizable template, Policy for Admission. MCN’s policy library helps you meet compliance with Joint Commission and federal regulations including CMS, CDC, OSHA, OIG, HIPAA and more.

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Here is some sample content from Policy for Admission:

	PURPOSE: Access and availability to agency services are provided to all who meet the admission criteria. POLICY: Agency admits only clients whose needs can be met by the services it provides at the level required by the client's condition. Clients shall be accepted for care and cared for without discrimination on the basis of age, sex, mental or physical handicap, race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin. Client referrals are received with licensed physician orders and authorization. The agency's ability to accept a client for admission will be determined by the following...
Second excerpt:
	...pay. Identified needs can be met on an intermittent basis unless reimbursement is by a third party payer not requiring this or by private pay. The client's needs require reasonable service, which is necessary for treatment. The client is homebound unless when homebound status is not a reimbursement requirement for non-Medicare clients. There is a reasonable expectation that medical, nursing and social needs can be appropriately satisfied by Agency in the client's residence, and that...