it becomes somewhat stickey to state end of life since of cours we're not
God. we write comfort care only. also I checked with the MDS help desk in
Illinois and unless you have good documentation in the progress notes, ect... I do
not code 6 mos or less to live in sec J5 even if they're on Hospice. How many
times have we seen someone on Hospice for a few years and the md documents doing
fine.
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