Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Sending a hospice referral to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos for a hospital or SNF discharge? Those route to the admissions and referral office, which keeps its own fax line. Based in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos is part of Amedisys and a hospice and palliative care program serving patients and families throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos Fax Number
Call Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos and ask whether to use central intake or the local office fax
Hours: Intake and authorization staff work weekday hours, while the on-call clinician fields time-sensitive comfort-care orders any time.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- Prior-authorization and Medicare hospice benefit eligibility documents
- Central-intake referral and insurance verification paperwork
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
Sending a hospice referral to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos
A discharge planner sending a patient to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos reaches the admissions office that opens the hospice case. A hospice referral moves fastest when the prognosis documentation and the authorization travel with it. A brief call to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos ahead of a same-day discharge helps staff watch for the fax so the family is not left waiting.
How the hospice election reaches Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos
Electing the Medicare hospice benefit with Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos starts with the signed election statement and the certification of terminal illness (CTI). The attending physician the patient designates is recorded so orders and the plan of care are coordinated. Note the attending physician and a callback number so the team can verify a question.
Sending patient charts to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos without cutting corners
Anything with a patient's history headed to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos is protected data under HIPAA. Encryption in transit and a compliant provider are what keep the transmission within the rules. With Send FAX Mail you send from your phone or computer over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted connection — Professional is $39.99/month and Business $79.99/month — appropriate for charts sent to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos.
Faxing to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos — FAQ
Start with a signed ROI form to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos's records office. The office names the current fax once your request is on file. Include the patient's name, date of birth, and the record types and date range. They release the copies to the recipient you named after processing.
Not one central number. What you send to medical records will not reach the hospice care team. Ask for the office you actually need to get the right number. Sending to the wrong line only delays the paperwork for a patient and family who need it.
Include the three identifiers staff use to match a chart: full name, date of birth, and medical record number. On the cover sheet, name medical records or the receiving office so it lands with the right team. That routing detail is what lets Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos reconnect the documents if they separate. Check the details once before you send so nothing bounces back.
Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos receives faxes at any hour, but the offices that process them keep set schedules. Records and admission-intake offices work weekday business hours. Time-critical orders are picked up at any hour by the on-call hospice clinician. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to Compassionate Care Hospice of the Poconos was seen.
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