This customizable document, Financial Incentives/Clinical Decision Making, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

Health care organizations around the world utilize MCN’s compliant ready templates and workflow process tools to help them meet the latest changes in regulations and standards.

Here is some sample content from Financial Incentives/Clinical Decision Making:

	POLICY: Clinical decisions are based on identified patient needs for care, treatment and services. Hospice does not base clinical decisions on compensation or financial risk sharing agreements that may exist with organization leaders, managers, clinical staff or contractors and/or physicians. The Code of Ethics of this Hospice precludes any leader, manager, clinical staff or contractor to remain associated with the Hospice in the event they are involved in financial incentives to influence clinical decision-making. Referrals from the Hospice to physicians and/or other...
Second excerpt:
	...with a copy of this policy. Hospice policies and procedures and any other information about patient care, patient treatments, patient services and financial incentives as they relate to referrals and/or use of service are available to patients, staff, licensed independent practitioners and contracted providers upon request. PROCEDURE: Referrals for care, treatment and services to the Hospice are accepted based upon patients' clinical needs and conformance with applicable laws and...