Independent Insurance Agent, Maine Medicare Options, Maine
Yes! Depending on your condition, you may get hospice care in a Medicare-approved hospice facility, hospital, nursing home, or other long-term care facility. The hospice benefit with Medicare allows you and your family to stay together in the comfort of your home unless you need care in an inpatient facility. If the hospice team determines that you need inpatient care, the hospice team will make the arrangements for your stay.
Hospice care is intended for people with 6 months or less to live if the disease runs its normal course. You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
A benefit period starts the day you begin to get hospice care and it ends when your 90-day or 60-day period ends. You have the right to change providers only once during each benefit period
At the start of each period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must re-certify that you’re terminally ill, so you can continue to get hospice care. If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor re-certifies that you're terminally ill.
You can read more details about Hospice Care & Medicare on my blog at http://www.mainemedicareoptions.com/content/hospice-care-medicare
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Hospice care is intended for people with 6 months or less to live if the disease runs its normal course. You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
A benefit period starts the day you begin to get hospice care and it ends when your 90-day or 60-day period ends. You have the right to change providers only once during each benefit period
At the start of each period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must re-certify that you’re terminally ill, so you can continue to get hospice care. If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor re-certifies that you're terminally ill.
You can read more details about Hospice Care & Medicare on my blog at http://www.mainemedicareoptions.com/content/hospice-care-medicare