Accurate documentation is key to supporting terminality and meeting hospice regulations. Attend this focused webinar to receive practical guidance through clear examples and real-world tips on how to document key technical and clinical details that back hospice eligibility, reduce denials, and boost compliance confidence — all while making your charting process easier and more defensible.

• Critical nature of documented baseline assessments
• How to document progressive decline in comparative assessment summaries
• Chronic vs terminal disease states
• How to document to support terminality and meet the regulations

Chronic versus terminal documentation continues to challenge hospice providers. This presentation will focus on documenting to support progressive decline and a terminal trajectory while applying the LCDs. Attendees will learn the LCDs and clinical guidelines simplified, along with key hospice diagnoses and how to document to support Medicare hospice eligibility. The session will concentrate on certification, recertification, and the nursing assessment, and examples will be used to demonstrate how to document in all key technical and clinical areas to support terminality.