Suncoast Hospice Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
Faxing patient records to Suncoast Hospice is allowed under HIPAA — but only over a secure, compliant channel, which is where most people slip. Suncoast Hospice, a hospice agency in Clearwater, Florida, is a hospice and palliative care provider and receives clinical documents by fax every day. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the agency.
Suncoast Hospice Fax Number
Ask Suncoast Hospice's admissions or medical records office for the current fax number
Hours: Referral and records staff work weekday business hours, while the on-call hospice nurse fields urgent orders any time.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Suncoast Hospice
- A hospital or SNF discharge summary for a referral
- A hospice referral and the certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- DNR, POLST, and advance-directive documents
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
Protected health information and Suncoast Hospice
A patient's records are protected health information, so how you fax them to Suncoast Hospice matters. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. Send FAX Mail's Professional plan ($39.99/month) and Business plan ($79.99/month) both include HIPAA coverage and encryption for documents bound for Suncoast Hospice.
Identifiers your fax to Suncoast Hospice needs
Records that arrive at Suncoast Hospice without identifiers are the ones that get delayed. Add your callback number so staff can reach you with a question instead of setting the request aside. Send multi-page records as one combined PDF so the documents stay in order.
Where the Suncoast Hospice fax number actually comes from
Rather than trust an old listing, get the current fax straight from Suncoast Hospice. Check Suncoast Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut here.
Faxing to Suncoast Hospice — FAQ
The right number depends on which office should receive the document. Call Suncoast Hospice and ask for the admissions and referral office or the office you are reaching. That one verification keeps sensitive pages out of the wrong queue. The office that receives the fax is the authority on its own number.
File a signed authorization with medical records. The records office confirms the fax destination for the authorization. Include the patient's name, date of birth, and the record types and date range. After review, the records go to you or whoever you designated.
Not one central number. As a hospice agency, it splits incoming faxes across medical records, intake, and the clinical team. Match the office to your document, then send to that specific line. A quick call to Suncoast Hospice settles which line your document should use.
Label each page with the patient's name, date of birth, and record number. Direct the cover sheet to the correct Suncoast Hospice office and include a number staff can call. Send it as one combined PDF so the pages stay in order. A missing identifier is the usual reason a fax sits in a queue at Suncoast Hospice.
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