LeadingAge National has signed onto a letter with the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation in support of telehealth visits being added to the hospice claim form.

CMS has specified that visits performed using telecommunications technology (with the exception of medical social service telephone calls) should not be included on the hospice claim. The current prohibition on reporting of technology-based visits on hospice claims severely limits the ability of CMS, hospice providers and other stakeholders to determine the full scope of patient and family interactions being conducted by various hospice care disciplines, to assess the value of the use of technologies on the delivery of hospice services, and to evaluate the impact such visits may have on the quality of care provided. The national organizations represented here all agree that telehealth visits should be added to the hospice claim form and have supported that addition in various comment letters over the last two years.

Read full letter here.

Questions?

Contact:

Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804