Hospice Care: Payment Policy

One-pager Resource: The Medicare Hospice Benefit (MHB) is one of the greatest success stories in the history of the American healthcare system. By serving more people with diverse diagnoses, in communities across the entire country, scaling the MHB has meant that the most vulnerable beneficiaries have greater access to person and family-centered, holistic care which can help alleviate the suffering and stress of a serious illness. Only about half of Medicare decedents access any hospice at all, and too many patients are on hospice for extremely short periods of time.