- Title
- Promising Practices for Implementing the Medicare Hospice Benefit for Nursing Home (NH) Resident
- Memo #
- 02-29
- Posting Date
- 05/10/2002
- Fiscal Year
- 2002
- Summary
- The purpose of this memorandum is to inform you that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has developed several promising practices for the successful implementation of the Medicare Hospice Benefit for nursing home residents. The following practices were developed after consultation with the long-term care and hospice industry representatives and are part of our commitment to assure that nursing home residents who elect the hospice benefit receive the needed care and services from providers.
