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Hospice Intake Best Practices

Choosing hospice is a big decision for patients and their families. This choice often comes during an emotionally charged time, while people are navigating a trauma. A well-executed hospice patient intake process can make all the difference. Intake is your agency’s opportunity to build trust and ensure a smooth transition to care. Check out some…

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Hospice Tools Blog

Hospice Tools EMR Awarded “CHAP VERIFIED” Seal Hospice Tools is the powerful EMR built from the ground up by hospice & palliative clinical & management experts. Experience the hospice & palliative EMR that delivers smooth operations, compliance, simple chart management, maximized revenue cycle management and more!

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Navigating Hospice ADRs

Medicare’s Additional Documentation Requests (ADRs) may seem scary and can be a hassle to navigate, but they’re also a great opportunity to ensure and showcase your hospice agency’s awesome care and compliance. By staying organized and with a few simple tips, your agency can easily handle ADRs. What are ADRs? Medicare uses ADRs to double-check…

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HIS Part 2: Ensuring Accurate HIS Submissions

In our previous HIS informational post we focused on the best practice of confirming the uploaded file was marked successfully completed rather than relying on upload accepted as completed status. In addition to confirming that the submission is marked completed, there are certain severe yet common errors which will only appear in the CASPER Final…

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HIS Upload Accepted vs. Submission Completion

Submitting your Hospice Item Set (HIS) form is critical to your hospice agency’s financial health. CMS will not proactively notify your agency that records have been rejected until they send a bill for up to 4% of your claims revenue. It is a vital best practice after uploading your HIS zip file click the Submission…

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VBID & The Hospice Billing Experts

Book your demo & find out more about the Hospice EMR built from the ground up for teams like yours! Check Out More Hospice Tools Insights!   Book Your Hospice Tools Demo Today! Get to the Top with Hospice Tools! Hospice Tools is the EMR built from the ground up for hospice & palliative agencies to…

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Diversity and Inclusion in Hospice

From our deep experience in hospice – from both the provider side and now on the side of delivering hospice software and services to local independent agencies across America, hospice agencies are built by people who are professional, altruistic, caring, and compassionate. When we talk about diversity and inclusion, especially in hospice, it’s easy for…

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Medical Benefits of Hospice

“Money! Are you freaking kidding me?!? All hospice is is a greedy money making killing machine! Nice tools you have here to streamline the death of loved ones! Not once did I read where you acknowledge that you are putting souls into eternity! God help us!” While many people are scared of hospice and don’t…

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Hospice Forms Library & Charting Checklists

Hospice Tools flex-forms library has virtually all the hospice charting documentation forms your agency needs – from admission orders through your final bereavement discharge summary. The forms flow automatically to your timesheets, HIS, show trend histories within documents, and are customizable to match your workflows. Paper forms, such as benefit elections, are easily transformed into…

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CAHPS Education: Hospice Discharge & Revocation

The Hospice CHAPS Education edition of valuable insights by our own hospice & palliative professionals covers the following CAHPS survey question: Discharge from Hospice Q: What are the three reasons a hospice may discharge a patient? 1. The patient moves out of the hospices service area or transfers to another hospice. Examples of moving out…

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