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135C.32 - HOSPICE SERVICES COVERED BY MEDICARE.

        135C.32  HOSPICE SERVICES COVERED BY MEDICARE.
         The requirement that the care of a resident of a health care
      facility must be provided under the immediate direction of either the
      facility or the resident's personal physician does not apply if all
      of the following conditions are met:
         1.  The resident is terminally ill.
         2.  The resident has elected to receive hospice services under the
      federal Medicare program from a Medicare certified hospice program.
         3.  The health care facility and the Medicare certified hospice
      program have entered into a written agreement under which the hospice
      program takes full responsibility for the professional management of
      the resident's hospice care and the facility agrees to provide room
      and board to the resident.
         Section History: Recent Form
         88 Acts, ch 1037, §1