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Medicare's Hospice Benefit (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 9, 2009
Report Number R40429
Report Type Report
Authors Julie Stone, Specialist in Health Care Financing
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Medicare covers hospice care for terminally ill beneficiaries instead of most other Medicareservices related to the curative treatment of their illness. Beneficiaries who elect hospice may stillreceive curative treatments for illnesses or injuries unrelated to their terminal illness, and theymay disenroll from hospice at any time.