Medicare Pays for Hospice. It Pays $0 for Routine Room and Board. If Hospice Happens in a Nursing Home, the Bill Is Yours at Roughly $10,000 a Month.

24/7 Wall St. · 4 hours ago

Medicare covers nearly every expense when a terminally ill patient enters hospice, so families feel the financial pressure lift. Then the discharge planner mentions the nursing home room, and a bill no one expected appears.

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