Healthcare Practitioners - Knowing When Hospice Care is Right for your Patient

Who Is Eligible

Adults of all ages
Patients with a prognosis of six months or less if the disease runs its normal course
Patients/families electing palliative care
Patients not responding to curative measures

Diagnosis

Oncology
End stage COPD, CHF, CVA, liver disease, diabetes
Kidney failure
Alzheimer’s
AIDS
Debility unspecified
Other diagnoses may be appropriate

Symptoms

Unintentional weight loss
Nausea, vomiting
Uncontrolled pain
Progressive decrease in response to medical modalities
Frequent hospitalizations and ER visits
Assistance with most activities of daily living

Levels of Care

Routine home care at home or in nursing homes
Respite, inpatient
Continuous care

Payment Source

Medicare Part A
Medicaid
Commercial insurance
Charity

Treatments that Require Evaluation

Compassionate Hospice specializes in palliative care. We handle clinically complex patients and evaluate the appropriateness of each treatment as it relates to pain and symptom management or to enhance a patient’s quality of life. The following treatments require evaluation on a case by case basis for admission to hospice services:

Palliative radiation
Dialysis
Feeding tubes
IV treatments or hydration
Chemotherapy
Transfusions

Physician

The attending physician remains the attending physician and continues to follow and bill for services as usual.

For evaluation of your patient for hospice services, contact Compassionate Hospice of North Georgia:

(678) 717-0969 or toll free (866) 866-0021
Fax (678) 717-0964

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