Six Months or Longer
Former President Jimmy Carter died recently at the age of 100 after being on Hospice care for nearly two years. How can that be? According to Medicare guidelines, to qualify for hospice under Medicare a patient must have a prognosis of six months or less to live if the disease runs its normal course. What if a patient lives longer then six months… won’t they lose hospice care? Not necessarily. Hospice patients and families can