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The average U.S. hospice has not undergone a full certification inspection in more than 3.5 years, a HuffPost analysis of Medicare data found. HuffPost found 759 hospices that haven’t been inspected in more than 6 years. Nursing home inspections, by contrast, are required by federal law at least every 15 months.
The information presented in this map reflects the results of hospice inspections provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the hospice industry’s federal regulator, in response to a public records request. The time period covers Jan. 2, 2004, to Oct. 16, 2014.
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Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious institutions. The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work.
[12] Other statistics from the 2017 report are as follows: 48.2 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2017 were enrolled in hospice at the time of death. [12] 40.5 percent of patients received care for 14 days or less, while those receiving care for more than 180 days accounted for 14.1 percent. [12]
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Medicare will cover the costs of hospice care when a person with a terminal illness is ready. Medicare hospice coverage includes two 90-day periods and then an unlimited number of subsequent 60 ...