Hospice Conditions of Participation Subpart C: Patient Care
Presented by Beth Noyce
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Many clinicians serving hospice patients provide excellent care but don’t know the patient-care requirements set forth in the hospice Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs). This knowledge gap can put the license of the agency, as well as that of the clinician, at risk. This course provides an overview of the Patient Care subsection of the Hospice CoPs to familiarize learners with its contents so they can reference and study its specifics. Compliance with all CoPs is paramount to each agency’s success, as state surveyors use the CoPs to determine whether an agency complies or is deficient in complying with the rules required of all hospices that wish to participate in Medicare’s hospice benefit program. This course is one tool to help participants make their agencies survey-ready. Other, more detailed content exists in other courses.
Meet your instructor
Beth Noyce
Beth Noyce, RN, BSJMC, HCS-C, is a home health and hospice consultant, mentor, educator, and regulatory Jedi who helps agencies know when they are at risk. She draws on her varied leadership and patient care hospice and home health experience gained since 1997. Job description? She helps keep people out of trouble. Beth was…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Elements of Subpart C: Patient Care
Chapter 1 provides an overview of what is included in Subpart C: Patient Care of the Hospice Conditions of Participation. It also breaks down Subpart C into categories that affect patient care and explains surveyor tools included in this section as well as all CoPs.
2. Conditions Within Subpart C: Patient Care
Chapter 2 introduces each condition within Subpart C: Patient Care. It also gives a glimpse at excerpts from interpretive guidelines and procedures and probes for each condition. These are guidance for how surveyors are to interpret and evaluate agencies’ compliance.
3. What Conditions Are Made Of and How to Use Them
In Chapter 3, viewers will learn the differences between standards and conditions, and how agencies can use them to improve patient care and compliance, including how standards are subject to conditions and differ in seriousness. A guest interview with Sharon Harder of C3 Advisors discusses how agencies should use the State Operations Manual Appendix M: Guidance to Surveyors: Hospice, Subpart C: Patient Care and what aspects of this resource are most valuable to agency success in patient care.
