Section 558.830 - Provision of Hospice Core Services(a) A hospice must routinely provide substantially all core services directly by hospice employees in a manner consistent with accepted standards of practice. A hospice must provide the following core services: (3) medical social services; and(b) A hospice may contract for physician services as specified in §558.831 of this division (relating to Hospice Physician Services).(c) A hospice may use contracted staff if necessary to supplement hospice employees to meet the needs of clients under extraordinary or other non-routine circumstances. A Medicare-certified hospice may also enter into a written contract with another Medicare-certified hospice to provide core services if necessary to supplement hospice employees to meet the needs of a client. The contracting hospice must maintain professional management responsibility for the services provided in accordance with § 558.854 of this subchapter (relating to Hospice Professional Management Responsibility). Circumstances under which the hospice may enter into a written contract for the provision of core services include: (1) unanticipated periods of high client loads;(2) staffing shortages due to illness or other short-term temporary staffing situations that could interrupt client care; and(3) temporary travel of a client outside of the hospice's service area.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 558.830
The provisions of this §558.830 adopted to be effective October 1, 2013, 38 TexReg 6628; Transferred from Title 40, Chapter 97 by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 15, April 12, 2019, TexReg 1893, eff. 5/1/2019; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 15, April 9, 2021, TexReg 2433, eff. 4/25/2021