Hospice Medical Directors Guide Quickflips©

This Quickflip© is written for the Hospice Medical Director.  It is a quick reference guide that covers a variety of topics that will assist the medical director in performing her/his professional responsibilities.  Some of the topics covered are: 

• Role of the Hospice Medical Director
  
• Hospice eligibility factors
  
• Writing the physician narrative
  
• Face-to-face encounter
  
• Levels of care
  
• Disease trajectory and frailty
  
• Local coverage determinations (LCDs) for eligibility
  
• Role of the medical director as an IDG member