As the health care industry’s most comprehensive library of customizable policy and procedure templates, MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual includes this customizable template, Change to Another Hospice. 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 Change to Another Hospice:

	PURPOSE: To outline the process by which a patient or patient's legal representative may choose to receive Hospice care from another provider. POLICY: Patients receiving Hospice services under the Medicare/Medicaid Hospice benefit may change the designation to another Hospice once in each election period. PROCEDURE: Hospice designation may be changed once during an election period. This is not a revocation and, therefore, there is no loss of days for that election period. Hospice requires a signed statement which requires the following information: The name of the Hospice from which the...
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	...election period. This is not a revocation and, therefore, there is no loss of days for that election period. Hospice requires a signed statement which requires the following information: The name of the Hospice from which the individual has received care, and the name of the Hospice from which the patient plans to receive care The date the change is to be effective Hospice will file this form in the patient's medical record and send a copy to the receiving Hospice. 1 SUBJECT:CHANGE TO...