Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
A referral to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care goes to the intake team that reviews new patients, so the destination line depends on the referral. Based in Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care is a community-based nonprofit hospice and a community hospice and palliative care organization serving patients and families throughout the Deep South. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Fax Number
Call Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care and ask for the hospice referral team or the office you need to reach by fax
Hours: Routine records processing runs Monday to Friday; urgent hospice orders reach the on-call clinician around the clock.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- The signed hospice election statement
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
Getting a patient onto hospice service at Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care
A discharge planner sending a patient to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care reaches the admissions office that opens the hospice case. A hospice referral moves fastest when the prognosis documentation and the authorization travel with it. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show the referral went through.
Faxing the hospice election and CTI to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care
Electing the Medicare hospice benefit with Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care starts with the signed election statement and the certification of terminal illness (CTI). A face-to-face (F2F) encounter is required to recertify the patient for the third benefit period and each one after it. Confirm the current admissions fax with Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care before sending time-sensitive election paperwork.
The secure way to fax Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care
A fax to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care that carries a chart is PHI and belongs on a secure channel. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
Faxing to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care — FAQ
Not one central number. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Match the office to your document, then send to that specific line. When in doubt, ask Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care for the office by name.
Every page should carry the patient's full name, date of birth, and record number. Note the target office — medical records, admission intake, or the hospice care team — on the cover sheet. Send it as one combined PDF so the pages stay in order. Clear labeling is what keeps a multi-page record together at Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care.
Incoming faxes to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care are never turned away by the hour, but processing is not always immediate. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. A records request sent overnight is worked the next business day, while urgent orders go to the on-call team. Expect same-day handling for the urgent orders the on-call team watches for.
Faxing records to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care is fine under HIPAA as long as the service is compliant. The risk is not the fax itself but an unsecured tool, so a free app or a public machine will not do. Send FAX Mail covers HIPAA on the Professional ($39.99/month) and Business ($79.99/month) plans for documents going to Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care. A secure send protects both you and the patient whose chart it is.
Send the election statement and CTI to the hospice admissions team. Get the working admissions fax from Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care directly. Attach the DNR or POLST and the discharge summary for the referral. Put the patient identifiers on every page so it is matched cleanly. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.
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