De-prescribing: Compliant Processes & Documentation and Effective Beneficiary Communication
Recorded On: 04/10/2024
De-prescribing is a quality intervention and must be performed in a compliant way. This presentation explores the impacts of de-prescribing to navigate quality, compliant & financially sound hospice care. It will assist hospices in identifying impacts on publicly reported data & understanding and addressing barriers to medication cessation and most importantly, how to communicate de-prescribing with beneficiaries and their families.
Objectives:
- Review compliant processes and documentation surrounding de-prescribing for hospice care teams
- Provide examples of effective hospice beneficiary communication
Lauren Templeton, DO FAAHPM HMDC
Physician Consultant
Weatherbee Resources
Dr. Lauren Templeton has been a Physician Consultant with Weatherbee Resources since 2017. As a physician since 2009 and a hospice and palliative medicine physician since 2012, Dr. Templeton began her career in internal medicine, but soon thereafter was drawn to end-of-life care due to its overall philosophy and her passion for ensuring a dignified death for her patients. As a hospice medical director and Hospice Medical Director Certified physician, she is perfectly positioned to assist your hospice physicians with compliance education!
Dr. Templeton currently works in hospice as the medical director for a medium size not-for-profit hospice based in Texas. In this role, she assists with compliance, quality improvement and documentation review. She continues to participate in clinical care managing hospice patients in both the home care and inpatient setting.
She also serves as associate medical director for the Palliative Care Department at a local medical center, as well as, serving on the foundation board, medical executive committee, and ethics committee for the same facility.
Dr. Templeton’s mission is to help support hospices by educating on the role of the hospice medical director from a regulatory and clinical perspective. She has served as a task force member and item writer for the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board from which she is certified. She continues a robust educational program within her own hospice program and is a regular speaker with the Texas New Mexico Hospice Organization.
As an advocate of the hospice benefit and speaks to groups such as the Alzheimer’s Association about hospice care and currently serves as a member of the NHPCO Regulatory Committee assisting in advocating for hospice providers across the country.
This speaker has nothing to disclose.
Ellen Heath-Fulp, PharmD, MSPC, BCGP
Director of Pharmacy Education
AvaCare
Ellen Fulp earned her bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Science and her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her master’s degree in Palliative Care at the University of Colorado Denver. Ellen is Board Certified in Geriatric Pharmacy, specializing in safe, appropriate medication use in the elderly. Ellen currently serves as the Director of Pharmacy Education for AvaCare, Inc.
She routinely provides consult regarding appropriate symptom management, regulatory issues, and medication appropriateness at end-of-life. Ellen is the immediate past chair of AAHPM’s pharmacotherapy special interest group and is currently serving as the leader of MyNHPCO’s pharmacist section steering committee.
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TARGET AUDIENCE: The target audience for this course is: Executive Directors, Hospice Medical Directors and Team Physicians, Clinical Managers, Corporate Compliance Officers, QAPI Coordinators, the Interdisciplinary Group, and others
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