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New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs

NHPCO

For Immediate Release March 22, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Care Reduces Medicare Costs Hospice Care Contributed to $3.5 billion less than it would have been had they not received hospice care. In the last year of life, the total costs of care to Medicare for beneficiaries who used hospice was 3.1

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. Families caring for seriously ill loved ones face systemic barriers that could threaten patients’ ability to receive care at home, including at the end of life.

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Congressional Briefing Demonstrates the Value of the Medicare Hospice Benefit

NHPCO

For Immediate Release July 28, 2023 New Research Shows Hospice Produces Better Outcomes, Lower Medicare Costs (Washington, D.C. Susan Lloyd, CEO of Delaware Hospice shared her personal experience with her mother’s end of life care. With hospice, you can provide that care at home.”