IA · guidance
Iowa Medicaid Hospice Provider Manual ch. III § A.4
Physician Certification
The hospice must obtain a physician’s certification that the member is
terminally ill. The certification must be signed by the medical director of the
hospice or the physician member of the hospice interdisciplinary group and
the member’s attending physician (if the member has an attending
physician). The attending physician is a physician who is a doctor of
medicine or osteopathy and is identified by the member at the time the
member elects to receive hospice care, as having the most significant role in
the determination and delivery of the member’s medical care.
Provenance
- Source
- hhs.iowa.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-01
- Edition
- hpm-2020-10-02
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