Saturday, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter began hospice care at his home. Monday, Channel 2′s Audrey Washington learned what makes hospice care different from traditional medical care. “We can ...

Choosing to enter hospice care can be a wrenching decision for yourself or a loved one. Hospice is intended to help terminally-ill people live out their lives as comfortably as possible. Hospice doesn ...

Nick Westfall and Jonathan Fleece are leaders of organizations providing end-of-life care. Amid talks to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, reducing federal spending is squarely on the table. While much ...

For years, Medicare and Medicare Advantage have covered hospice reimbursement, allowing seniors to enter into that phase of ...

Every year, Augusta Health hosts its Hospice of the Shenandoah Annual Christmas Benefit Concert to help provide hospice ...

The answer is yes, Medicare covers hospice, but you must qualify and use a Medicare-approved hospice provider. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

The Medicare hospice benefit was originally designed around a cancer disease paradigm but increasingly serves people living with dementia. At this time, almost half of all older adults receiving ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - This weekend will mark one month since former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care. The former president’s decision has a lot of people asking just what hospice care is.

When the news recently broke that Jimmy Carter, who first announced he had metastatic melanoma in 2015, was entering hospice care, many media resources reported that the former president "decided to ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), the agency that administers the Medicare hospice benefit, has announced increased scrutiny of hospice programs in the wake of growing ...