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NL: Must a provider provide an Addendum for nonMedicare patients?
JLP: It is only required for Medicare patients, which
is the vast majority of our patients. You could offer
it to anyone who you are providing care to, but it is
not required.
NL: How is the Advanced Beneficiary Notice different?
JLP: The ABN is issued to a beneficiary when you, as
a hospice, are transferring potential financial liability
to the beneficiary. So, for example, you would be
saying that from this point on, the beneficiary is
responsible for the payment for X, Y, or Z. Most often
this would be because it is not considered medically
reasonable or necessary. With the hospice Election
Statement and Addendum, you are informing the
beneficiary and representative of any items, services,
or drugs that the hospice will not be providing
because they are unrelated. So, it is a little bit of a
splitting hairs, but I think that as we use this, we will
get a clearer understanding of the difference
between the two.
NL: Most hospices, hopefully, have been preparing for
this but are there recommendations for a hospice just
getting started?
JLP: We are talking to lots of providers at this point.
So, the first thing would be: Have you talked to your
electronic medical record vendor, or whoever is doing
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your EMR services. Are they going to include the
electronic Addendum and the electronic Election
Statement? Are they ready to roll out their new
requirements? What's the process that they are
going to be using? When will that be? When will the
final product be ready? If you have an EMR vendor,
that would be the first set of questions to ask. For
those with an EMR, I think providers might be
starting before a final product arrives.
NL: What about the organization's process?
JLP: By now, you should have started a process of
how this is going to work in your agency. Things to
ask include: What kinds of things do we need to have
in place? How can we make sure that we cover all
the bases? And, importantly, who is in charge?
Helpful materials I think would be a checklist to make
sure you have addressed the necessary pieces. Very
high on the priority list will be how the policy and
procedure within your organization will be
established. Other questions that need to be
answered include: How are staff going to be trained?
Who is going to be talking about this to the patient
and family and what are they going to say? How are
your staff going to describe it so that it is not
confusing and not unintelligible? Will you be able to
answer questions about how it works? Then you also
have to think about what's going to go in your
admission packet - is this form automatically
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AXXESS Hospice (display ad)
Table of Contents
Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference (display ad)
Edo's Message
FY2021 Hospice Wage Index (feature article)
Virtual Conference Thank You (display ad 1/2 page)
Q&A on Election Statement
Quality Care in the time of COVID-19
Quality Connections
NHPCO Releases Facts & Figures Report
Seeing the World
NHPCO Career Center (display ad 1/2 page)
Weatherbee Resources (display ad 1/2 page)
NHF Gala Sponsor Thanks
Virtual Gala Recap
Highlight Value of Pediatric Care
State Pediatric Survey - Data Collection
We Honor Veterans Spotlight
New Courses Ondemand
New Podcast
Lighthouse of Hope (display ad 1/2 page)
Diversity Advisory Council Paper
AXXESS Hospice (display ad #2)
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