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, Physician Responsibility in Managing Hospice Patients. 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 Physician Responsibility in Managing Hospice Patients:

	PURPOSE: To specify the physician's responsibilities toward the management of Hospice patients. POLICY: Hospice annually provides the Physician's Rights and Responsibilities document to each physician managing the care of a Hospice patient. PROCEDURE: The Hospice Medical Director will provide physicians on staff at Hospital with a document that defines the physician's rights and responsibilities for managing Hospice patients. This is done via Hospital Medical Department meetings. The Hospice Medical Director is available to answer question from the medical staff. Physicians not on staff...
Second excerpt:
	...staff who are familiar with patients available to respond to questions regarding patients. Information to help in continuity of care, phone consultation, ongoing updates and written summaries at a minimum every 62 days. Refer patients to specialty physicians when exacerbation of the patient's terminal illness occurs, and make appropriate referrals to other organizations for supportive services. Confidentiality of information and communication to the physician by Hospice staff. ...