50.95 Rule-making authority. The department shall promulgate all of the following rules:
(1) Except as provided in s. 50.942, standards for the care, treatment, health, safety, rights, welfare and comfort of individuals with terminal illness, their families and other individuals who receive palliative care or supportive care from a hospice and the maintenance, general hygiene and operation of a hospice, which will permit the use of advancing knowledge to promote safe and adequate care and treatment for these individuals. These standards shall permit provision of services directly, as required under 42 CFR 418.56, or by contract under which overall coordination of hospice services is maintained by hospice staff members and the hospice retains the responsibility for planning and coordination of hospice services and care on behalf of a hospice client and his or her family, if any.
(2) Provisional hospice licensure fees or the methods of computation of those fees.
(3) Inspection or investigation procedures that the department or the department's designated representative may use to assure the provision of care and treatment that is commensurate with the standards established under sub. (1).
(4) Criteria for determining financial hardship for the waiver of licensing fees.
(5) Criteria for determining that the applicant for licensure is fit and qualified.
(6) A procedure for waiver of and variance from standards under sub. (1) or criteria under sub. (5). The department may limit the duration of the waiver or variance.
History: 1989 a. 199; 1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 28.
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