Hospice EMR Frequently Asked Questions

Hospice Audit Guard Co-Pilot™ is a built-in Clinical Intelligence capability within HospiceWorks. It reviews structured patient information and clinical documentation to help identify potential compliance gaps, incomplete eligibility support, missing clinical rationale, and care-plan considerations before a clinician signs the record.

Yes. Hospice Audit Guard Co-Pilot™ supports pre-signature review within Initial Nursing Assessments and Nursing Visit Notes. It can highlight potential documentation gaps, evaluate supporting clinical evidence, and provide findings for clinician review. It supports clinical documentation quality but does not replace professional judgment.

Traditional hospice QA often involves reviewing completed documentation, identifying concerns, and returning records to clinicians for clarification. Hospice Audit Guard Co-Pilot™ brings an additional review opportunity directly into the Initial Nursing Assessment and Nursing Visit Note workflows before clinician sign-off. It evaluates structured clinical information to identify potential gaps in hospice eligibility support, documented decline, baseline comparisons, symptom follow-up, and care-plan considerations. Clinicians review the findings and remain responsible for final documentation decisions.

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HospiceWorks includes structured workflows for key hospice documentation requirements, including admissions, certifications, nursing assessments, care plans, interdisciplinary reviews, HOPE assessments, and compliance deadlines. The platform helps teams track documentation and identify missing items. Regulatory compliance remains the responsibility of each hospice organization.

Yes. HospiceWorks includes Medicare HOPE assessment workflows and tracking for admission, applicable Hospice Update Visits, and discharge. Its tracking features help clinical teams monitor assessment windows, upcoming tasks, and outstanding documentation.

Yes. HospiceWorks supports Certification of Terminal Illness documentation, physician certification workflows, face-to-face encounter tracking, and plan-of-care completion and review. These connected workflows help clinical and administrative teams identify documentation that requires attention.

HospiceWorks includes California-focused documentation workflows such as significant-change notification tracking and structured corrections and addendums. These help hospices document important events, follow-up actions, authentication, and timing. Additional California-specific verification, dashboard, and reporting capabilities are being developed. Hospices should confirm the current status of each required workflow during a demonstration.

Yes. HospiceWorks integrates the Election Statement Addendum into applicable admission workflows. It supports deadline tracking, use of structured patient information, alerts for qualifying changes, and completion and signature workflows. Electronic signing options include signing immediately or sending the document by email for remote signature.