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In a move that has shocked the healthcare community to its core, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced its plans to sunset the Hospice Medicare Benefit. This decision comes as a response to what CMS has described as “unprecedented challenges” facing the hospice care sector, ranging from rampant use of Unicorns […]

The Carter family’s experience with hospice care, particularly the contrasting durations of hospice care for Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, raises important questions about the timing and utilization of hospice services. Hospice care varies significantly in terms of length of stay. In 2018, the average length of stay (LOS) for Medicare patients in hospice was 89.6