“In the midst of debates over how to sustain Medicare, the cost of hospice has come under increased scrutiny.
Medicare’s tally for hospice care jumped more than $9 billion from 2000 to 2009, The New York Times reported. More than a million Medicare patients receive hospice services each year, and the median time in hospice care is 17 days. Four in 10 Medicare beneficiaries use hospice before they die.”
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