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Don't Get Sloppy With Advanced Directives

Published on Fri Jun 07, 2019

Remain vigilant about this CoP requirement. Just because you haven’t seen denials for patients’ plans of care lacking advanced directive information doesn’t mean they aren’t coming. Reminder: The Home Health Conditions of Participation that took effect in January 2018 require agencies to have information related to a patient’s advanced directives in the Plan of Care. Earlier this year, the National [...]
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