Major revisions to the Conditions of Participation for hospice providers become effective on December 2, 2008. New rules address the initial and comprehensive assessment, patient¹s rights, hospice aide and homemaker services, quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI), infection control, background checks, and more. The first chapter in this manual includes an easy-to-read format those new Conditions. The second chapter focuses on the Interpretive Guidelines currently used by State Hospice Surveyors.

This concise manual brings together in one volume Medicare¹s many rules governing hospice. Use it to prepare staff for the new requirements and as an up-to-date ready reference for regulatory questions.

This manual, along with the Medicare Hospice Management: Structure, Process, and Service Delivery manual, will complete anyone’s hospice regulatory reference library. Edition 2.0, 85 pages.

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