Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

More Patients Starting Hospice In Last 3 Days Of Life

Hospice enrollment among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer is up, but so is the number of days cancer patients spend in the ICU at the end of their lives. And so is the proportion of patients who start hospice in the last three days of life, "a time period often too short to provide pa-tients the full benefit of hospice care," [...]
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