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Big Bend Hospice Fax Number — Send the Election and Certification

Electing the Medicare hospice benefit with Big Bend Hospice starts with the signed election statement and the CTI, so the right fax is the admissions line. As a community-based nonprofit hospice, Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Florida receives faxed orders, records, and referral packets for hospice patients across Florida and the Southeast. Because these documents carry patient health information, this guide covers both where to send them and how to keep the transmission compliant.

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Big Bend Hospice Fax Number

Use Big Bend Hospice's referral or records-request instructions to find where to send documents

Hours: Administrative offices are open weekdays; urgent symptom-management orders reach the on-call team evenings and weekends.

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What You Can Fax to Big Bend Hospice

  • Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
  • Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
  • Bereavement and continuing-care enrollment forms
  • Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
  • Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
Tip: Mark all pages with the patient identifiers (name, date of birth, record number) that Big Bend Hospice needs to reconnect a split record. Direct the cover sheet to the admissions and referral office or the office handling the request, with a callback number for questions. Group the pages into a single fax and hold onto the confirmation in case you need to prove it arrived.

How the hospice election reaches Big Bend Hospice

Electing the Medicare hospice benefit with Big Bend Hospice starts with the signed election statement and the certification of terminal illness (CTI). Both the hospice medical director and, initially, the attending physician sign the certification for the first benefit period. Address the cover sheet to the admissions office so the election reaches the team that opens the case.

Getting orders to the hospice care team at Big Bend Hospice

Physician orders for a patient of Big Bend Hospice route to the hospice care team, not to a general line. A complete order — patient identifiers, the instruction, and the physician's signature — is actioned fastest. Send the order and any supporting notes as one fax so nothing arrives split.

Sending patient charts to Big Bend Hospice without cutting corners

A patient's records are protected health information, so how you fax them to Big Bend Hospice matters. HIPAA permits faxing PHI over a compliant, encrypted service — not a shared office machine or a free app. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA from the Professional plan at $39.99/month, with the Business plan at $79.99/month for higher volume — a safer route for records going to Big Bend Hospice than a public machine.

Faxing to Big Bend Hospice — FAQ

At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. Add a cover sheet addressed to the admissions and referral office at Big Bend Hospice with your callback number. A delivery confirmation then tells you the fax reached Big Bend Hospice. Check the details once before you send so nothing bounces back.

You can send to Big Bend Hospice any time, though routine paperwork is worked during business hours. Administrative offices keep a Monday-to-Friday schedule. Send routine requests early in the day for same-day handling; urgent symptom-management orders are actioned immediately. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to Big Bend Hospice was seen.

Yes, when the transport is compliant. HIPAA turns on using a compliant, encrypted service rather than a public one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to Big Bend Hospice than a public machine. Handled that way, the records stay within the rules end to end.

A number copied from a search result may be stale; Big Bend Hospice has the current one. Reach the specific Big Bend Hospice office by phone and confirm the fax it uses today. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. Note the number the first time so the next fax to Big Bend Hospice is quicker.

Hospice referrals route to the admissions office, apart from a records request. Ask Big Bend Hospice for the current hospice intake line first. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the current comfort-care orders. Send the whole packet as one job so nothing arrives split. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.

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