Waiver of Certain
Staffing Requirements within the Medicare Hospice Program
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Date: March 20, 2000 DSL-BQA-00-029
To: Hospice Providers HSPCS 12
From: Jan Eakins, Chief, Provider Regulation and Quality Improvement Section
cc: Susan Schroeder, Director, Bureau of Quality
Assurance
The purpose of this memo is to provide information received from the federal Health
Care Financing Administration, Chicago Regional Office. The attachment
provides guidance for how a hospice program not located in an urbanized area can request
waiver consideration of the requirement to provide dietary counseling services directly.
If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact Barbara Woodford
at (715) 855-7310 (replaced by Marianne Missfeldt, (715) 836-4036), Juan Flores at (608) 261-7824
(replaced by Jan Heimbruch - (608)
243-2086)or Jane Walters at (replaced by Cremear Mims, (608)
243-2028).
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