How to Become a Licensed Hospice Agency?
What is Hospice Care?
Hospice consists of a medically directed, interdisciplinary team-managed program of services that focuses on the patient and their family. Hospice is the gold standard method of caring for people at the stage of a terminal illness when no further curative or life-prolonging therapy is available or wished to be pursued by a patient or family member. Hospice services can assist the family (as well as family caregivers) in making the patient as comfortable as possible by optimizing pain and symptom management and other forms of physical and/or spiritual suffering as needed in a home or home-like setting.
Is Hospice the Same as Supportive Palliative Care?
Hospice care focuses on the patient and families’ needs to ensure they are comfortable and treated with dignity near the end of the patient’s life. This is different than supportive palliative care which focuses on improving quality of life while still actively pursuing and engaging in treatments that can potentially be curative or life-prolonging.
DOH Can Help You Get Your Business Fully License & Operation On An Average 9 Months.
Core Startups Services
FIRST PHASE (60-90) DAYS
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Process Incorporation /LLC and EIN Number
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Process NPI Number for your Home Health Care Agency
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Develop the Initial Policies and Procedures for Home Health Care Agency
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Develop the Initial Forms & Document or Home Health Care Agency
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Process the State Application for Home Health Care Agency
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Acquire State License for Home Health Care Agency
REQUIRED START UP FEES
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LLC/INC Filing Fees $325
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Continuing Education Online Class $260
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State Application Fee 3-Year License: $2,625
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DOH Fee: $4500
FIRST PHASE TOTAL FEES:$7,710
SECOND PHASE (120-180) DAYS
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Process Medicare Provider Application with CMS
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Process Accreditation Application with CHAPS
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Process Medicaid Provider Application with Texas Medicaid
REQUIRED START UP FEES
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Medicare/Medicaid Application Fee $688
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CHAPS Accreditation Fees $2,500
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DOH Fee: $4500
SECOND PHASE TOTAL FEES:$7,688
RULES & STATUTES
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Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 558: Licensing Standards for Home and Community Support Services Agencies
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Health and Safety Code: Title 2, Chapter 142: Home and Community Support Services
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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42, Chapter 4, Part 418: Hospice Care
DOH Can Help You By Providing The Following Services To Assist You With This Process.
