Medicare Hospice Benefit

The Medicare Hospice Benefit will cover any care reasonable for easing the course of a terminal illness. The Medicare Hospice Benefit provides for:

• Physician and nurse practitioner services

• Nurse care

• Medical appliances and supplies

• Medicine for symptom management and pain relief

• Short-term inpatient and respite care

• A homemaker and home health aide services

• Counseling

• Social work service

• Hospice volunteers

• Bereavement services