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In Reply To: Re:Please forward to Gretchen Brown
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Author: LoriB
Date: Feb 18, 2008 9:04 am
Continuing this dialogue with Gretchen...since HBG palliative care program is community based do you have dual medicare certification with hospice and home health for billable services? It is sometimes difficult to define the Medicare skill for home health palliative care requiring that we discharge the patient even before they are ready for hospice but yet continue to need the counseling and education.
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Re:Re:Re:Please forward to Gretchen Brown (by janetbraun on 02/19/2008)
I'm responding for Gretchen. We do not have a home care license. Our hospice is a part A Medicare provider. Our palliative care service is a physicians practice with Part B Medicare provider status. With this structure,
we do not run into the difficulties you mention. This palliative care program includes MD, ARNP, RN case manager, and a LCSW. We can make home visits, though the majority of visits are conducted in the clinic setting.

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