HOSPICE: Ward Off Hospice Audits By Helping SNF Partners

Article Overview

This article explains why hospice patients in skilled nursing facilities can create compliance and survey risk for both hospice providers and SNFs. It focuses on the need for coordinated care, documentation visibility, and cooperation between facility and hospice staff when surveyors review a resident’s plan of care. The piece is relevant to hospice administrators, SNF operators, compliance staff, and coding/billing professionals who work with post-acute care documentation and Medicare survey expectations.