ACE USA’s ACE Medical Risk Division now offers an endorsement for hospice care eligibility requirements. This new enhanced hospice care eligibility recertification endorsement serves as an amendment to ACE’s hospice facilities products. It provides professional liability coverage to hospice physicians, addressing the unique risks they face when re-certifying patients for hospice care.
The hospice care eligibility recertification endorsement responds to a change mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It addresses the needs of hospice organizations by providing coverage for hospice physicians as they determine each patient’s continued eligibility for hospice care through a face-to-face encounter, and attest to those visits as required by the ACA.
In addition, ACE Medical Risk has introduced the liability arising out of hospitals or other enterprises amendment. This is an expansion of ACE’s hospice facilities products, and is designed for owners and managers of residential hospice facilities, or for hospices that utilize beds in hospitals or nursing homes to deliver hospice care.
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