Medicare Delays Trial of Letting Hospice Patients Continue Dialysis
A strange, long-standing Medicare policy forces patients with kidney disease to give up dialysis to receive hospice. Medicare was planning…
A strange, long-standing Medicare policy forces patients with kidney disease to give up dialysis to receive hospice. Medicare was planning…
Hospice patients or their representatives have legally guaranteed rights to use the hospice agency of their choice. However, these rights…
A first-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in February shows that patients with dementia live…
More Americans are now dying at home than in the hospital for the first time in half a century. While…
Yes, the Medicare hospice benefit allows for chemotherapy and radiotherapy as long as the purpose is symptom relief. Medicare’s hospice…
When a person has a disease in an advanced state, the life expectancy is less than six months, and all…
The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine recently published a study suggesting that the longer a student is in…
In hospice, the question of 24-hour care is a complex one. The answer is “yes,” hospice provides continuous care in…
This question refers to a long-standing conflict in medical care. On one hand, doctors want to give their patients accurate…
Yes, for qualified patients, Medicare pays 100% of charges from Medicare-certified hospice agencies and pays most of the other hospice-related…