Hospice Levels of Care: General Inpatient and Continuous Home Care

Course Code: REL-PAC-0-HLCGICHC

Hours: 1

Type: Online Course

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025

Learning Objectives:
Recognize the clinical need for the hospice general inpatient and continuous home care levels of care.
Recall criteria that support payment for the higher levels of hospice care.
Identify successful documentation strategies to support the higher levels of care.

Outline:

Section 1: Introduction

About This Course

Learning Objectives

Section 2: The Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice Levels of Care

Review

Summary

Section 3: General Inpatient Care

Requirements

GIP in a Hospital or Skilled Nursing Facility

Myths and Misuse of GIP

When and Why GIP?

Documentation

Discharge Planning

GIP Scrutiny

Review

Summary

Section 4: Continuous Home Care

Requirements

Continuous Home Care in a Facility

When and Why Continuous Care?

Documentation

Continuous Care Scrutiny

Pre-Billing Audits

Review

Summary

Section 5: Conclusion

Course Summary

Course Contributor

Resource

References

Instructor: Susan Heinzerling, BSN, RN, CHPN

Susan Heinzerling earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a Master of Life Sciences in physiology from North Carolina State University. She became a doctoral candidate in immunology at the University of South Alabama. Her research experiences in the biomedical sciences led to an interest in evidence-based practices. Ms. Heinzerling began her nursing career as a medical/surgical nurse. Patients in acute care with multiple chronic conditions and repeated hospitalizations inspired her practice of hospice nursing. She has worked as a hospice admissions nurse and a hospice RN case manager in both a large urban setting and a rural community.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Nursing Personnel; Social Workers; in the following settings: Skilled Nursing Facility.

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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.