Nebraska Medicine Hospice Fax Number — Send the Election and Certification
Need to fax the hospice election statement or the certification of terminal illness to Nebraska Medicine Hospice? Those go to the admissions office that opens the benefit period, not a general line. Nebraska Medicine Hospice is part of Nebraska Medicine, a hospital-affiliated hospice in Omaha, Nebraska, caring for patients and families across the Great Plains. Because these documents carry patient health information, this guide covers both where to send them and how to keep the transmission compliant.
Nebraska Medicine Hospice Fax Number
Ask Nebraska Medicine Hospice's intake or health-information office for the current fax number
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Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Nebraska Medicine Hospice
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- Referral and intake paperwork from the discharging unit
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- A hospital discharge summary and transition-to-hospice referral
Sending the certification of terminal illness to Nebraska Medicine Hospice
The signed election statement and the CTI for a patient of Nebraska Medicine Hospice go to the admissions office that opens the benefit period. The certification of terminal illness confirms the physician's judgment that the prognosis is six months or less if the illness runs its usual course. Confirm the current admissions fax with Nebraska Medicine Hospice before sending time-sensitive election paperwork.
Physician orders and pharmacy coordination at Nebraska Medicine Hospice
Medication and comfort-care orders for Nebraska Medicine Hospice patients are handled by the clinical team, apart from intake. Comfort-kit and symptom-management orders are coordinated with the hospice's pharmacy so the family has medication on hand. Include the patient's name and date of birth so staff match it to the right chart.
Protected health information and Nebraska Medicine Hospice
Because these documents hold health information, the transport to Nebraska Medicine Hospice has to be compliant. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. 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 Nebraska Medicine Hospice.
Faxing to Nebraska Medicine Hospice — FAQ
No. Nebraska Medicine Hospice routes faxes to separate office lines, so medical records and the admissions and referral office do not share a number. Each office — records, admissions, the hospice care team — answers a different fax. Confirm the correct line for the office you are reaching before you send. A quick call to Nebraska Medicine Hospice settles which line your document should use.
Every page should carry the patient's full name, date of birth, and record number. Add a cover sheet addressed to the admissions and referral office at Nebraska Medicine Hospice with your callback number. Attach the signed ROI authorization when the fax is a records request. A missing identifier is the usual reason a fax sits in a queue at Nebraska Medicine Hospice.
Incoming faxes to Nebraska Medicine Hospice are never turned away by the hour, but processing is not always immediate. Administrative offices keep a Monday-to-Friday schedule. The hospice on-call line handles urgent comfort-care orders after hours. Flag anything time-sensitive on the cover sheet so it is not treated as routine.
Faxing records to Nebraska Medicine Hospice is fine under HIPAA as long as the service is compliant. Faxing itself is accepted for PHI; the transport is what has to be secure. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA from the Professional plan at $39.99/month and encrypts documents in transit for records bound for Nebraska Medicine Hospice. Choose the secure channel first, then confirm the number for Nebraska Medicine Hospice.
A transition-to-hospice referral goes to the admissions office that reviews transfers from the health system. Confirm the intake fax with Nebraska Medicine Hospice before sending the discharge packet. Include the face-to-face encounter note and the attending physician's information. Name the receiving office on the cover sheet so it is not misrouted. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.
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