This set includes the Medicare Hospice Management Manual and the Hospice Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines.

Medicare Hospice Management: Structure, Process, and Service Delivery
This comprehensive manual is a core resource for every Medicare-certified hospice provider. Starting with the history, ethics, and philosophy of palliative care, it builds a foundation for processes and the organization necessary for successful operations. The Interdisciplinary Group process is central to the approach. Medicare’s regulatory requirements are integrated into each chapter, clearly explaining the issues and requirements for compliance and payment.

Hospice administrators, case managers, and clinical directors will find this to be an essential guide, reference, and tool for teaching new professionals the theories and practices of hospice care.

Chapters Include:

• History of Hospice
• Administration and Services
• The Medicare Hospice Benefit
• Care Delivery Process
• Contract Facilities
• Ethics in Hospice and Access to Care
• Data Collection and Quality Improvement
• Billing
• References
• Glossary of Key Terms
• Index

Hospice Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines
This concise manual brings together in one volume Medicare’s many rules governing hospice. Use it to simplify staff training and provide an up-to-date ready reference for regulatory questions. This manual includes all changes in hospice rules up to, and including, the changes posted in the June 2008 Federal Register .

The first chapter includes an easy to read format of Medicare’s Conditions of Participation for Hospice Care, while the second chapter focuses on the Interpretive Guidelines used by State Hospice Surveyors.

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

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