Hospice Terminal Diseases 101: Disease Progression, Eligibility, LCD Guidance & Documentation for Hospice Clinicians. A Practical Guide For Hospice Clinicians - Couverture souple

Johnson-Nganbou Kamkeu DNP AGNP-C APRN-CNP, Dr. Christine

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ISBN 13 : 9798163547876

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Hospice Terminal Diseases 101

A plain-language quick reference to hospice eligibility, LCD guidance, and the documentation that supports it.

Deciding whether a patient has six months or less, and showing it in the record, is one of the hardest parts of hospice work. Hospice Terminal Diseases 101 gathers the eligibility criteria for the diagnoses you see most often. Disease by disease, it explains what the record must show at admission and at every recertification.

The book is organized in four sections:

• Eligibility Foundations: certification, the election statement and addendum, benefit periods, choosing the principal diagnosis, the six-month standard, and documenting decline against a clear baseline
• Disease-Specific Eligibility: cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, heart failure, COPD, chronic respiratory failure, kidney disease, liver disease, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke and coma, other neurologic diseases, HIV, severe malnutrition and failure to thrive, and comorbidities
• Documenting Continued Eligibility: disease-specific signs of decline, what to document at every visit, recertification, the face-to-face encounter, and live discharge
• Quick-Reference Tools: eligibility tables and documentation checklists you can copy for your agency

The disease chapters follow a similar format: how the disease progresses, what qualifies under the LCD, findings that strengthen eligibility, what the record must show, continued eligibility at recertification, and when the patient may not qualify.

Written by a hospice nurse practitioner for hospice nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, case managers, and quality staff. It reflects 2026 rules, including the election statement addendum for elections on or after October 1, 2026, and telehealth face-to-face encounters through December 31, 2027.

Part of the Hospice 101 series. For the admission visit itself, see Hospice Admissions 101.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798163547876
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 154
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg