Hospice provides care for a patient at home or in an inpatient facility, surrounded by family and friends.
Care can be established wherever you call home. At Azorna Healthcare, we understand the unique needs
and challenges you and your loved ones are facing during this difficult time. As a Azorna Healthcare patient,
your preferences and needs guide your care. Your care team works with you, your doctors, and caregivers
to treat your whole well-being. We concentrate on helping you live and pass on with as much comfort,
peace and dignity as possible.
As long as the patient meets the certification criteria, there is no limit on the amount of time a patient can
then spend under hospice care, although the hospice must continue to monitor continued eligibility as a
part of the recertification process every 90 days for the first 180 days, and when the 90-day periods are
complete, prior to every 60-day benefit period. This monitoring function takes place through the face-to-
face encounter, as well as ongoing interdisciplinary team review. If the patient is a nursing home resident
and chooses to elect hospice care, the Medicare Hospice Benefit covers all care and services related to
the terminal prognosis. However, the patient may not, except in unusual circumstances, receive their
Medicare Skilled Nursing Home benefit at the same time as their hospice benefits.
For the duration of an election of hospice care, an individual waives all rights to Medicare payments for
any Medicare services that are related to the treatment of the terminal prognosis for which hospice care
was elected. Exceptions include: services provided by the designated hospice, another hospice under
special arrangements, or the individual’s attending physician (if the physician is not an employee of the
designated hospice or receiving compensation from the hospice for his or her services).