LCD for Hospice - Determining Terminal Status (L25678)

The hospice team may find the patient appropriate for an acute hospice bed in the hospital if: The patient is too ill to move. b. The patient is on the waiting list to be moved to an inpatient hospice bed. Death appears imminent. The hospice physician/nurse will write the order in the chart to admit to an Acute Hospice Bed. ................
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