For hospice programs
Medicare requires you to screen and document your volunteers. VolunteerBadge makes it rigorous, FCRA-compliant, and affordable — with identity verification built into every $5 check.
Hospice volunteers sit at the bedside of people in their most vulnerable moments — often alone, often in private homes. Screening them isn’t just good practice; under Medicare’s hospice Conditions of Participation, it’s required.
But meeting that requirement shouldn’t cost a fortune or eat your volunteer coordinator’s week. VolunteerBadge runs a full, FCRA-compliant background check for $5 — and bakes in identity verification most providers don’t offer at any price.
No monthly fees, no contracts, no per-seat charges. Screen one volunteer or two hundred.
What Medicare requires
Medicare’s hospice Conditions of Participation (42 CFR Part 418) require hospices to recruit, train, retain, and screen volunteers — and to keep documentation of that process. Most states layer on criminal background-check requirements for anyone serving patients in the home. VolunteerBadge gives you the search, the identity verification, and the audit trail to document all of it.
This is general information, not legal advice. Confirm your specific obligations with counsel or your licensing/state agency.
Terminally ill patients are among the most vulnerable people a volunteer will ever encounter. Identity verification ensures the person you cleared is the person who actually shows up.
Hospice volunteers frequently work one-on-one in private residences. A name-and-SSN search alone isn’t enough — you need to verify the living human behind the application.
A surveyor will ask for your screening documentation. Every VolunteerBadge check stores a complete, FCRA-compliant audit trail you can produce on demand.
A name, DOB, and SSN can be borrowed — and a clean record run on the wrong person tells you nothing. VolunteerBadge ties a live biometric selfie to a government photo ID, then triangulates it against the SSN trace and address history. So the volunteer you clear is the person who actually walks into an older adult’s home. Included in every $5 check.
How identity verification worksNo add-ons, no monthly fees, no minimums.
Yes. Medicare’s hospice Conditions of Participation require a documented volunteer screening process, and most states require criminal background checks for volunteers who serve patients — especially in the home. VolunteerBadge provides both the check and the documentation.
$5 per check on VolunteerBadge — a national criminal search with sex-offender registries, identity verification, a free address-history trace, and a built-in FCRA adverse-action workflow. No monthly fees.
Yes, on every check. A live biometric selfie is matched to a government photo ID and triangulated against the SSN trace and address history — so the volunteer you clear is the person who actually visits your patients.
Yes. It’s operated by a licensed Consumer Reporting Agency, with digital authorization, disclosures, and adverse-action notices generated automatically and stored for your records.
Most checks return clear in minutes. If a possible record surfaces, a real reviewer verifies it belongs to your applicant before it ever reaches you.
FCRA-compliant, identity-verified, documented. No contract, no monthly fee, no catch.
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