• Treatment intended to cure your terminal illness. As a Hospice patient, you always have the right to stop hospice care at any time.

• Prescription drugs to cure your illness than for symptom control or pain relief.

• Care from any hospice provider that wasn't set up by the hospice team.

• Room and board. Medicare doesn't cover room and board if you get hospice care in your home or if you live in a nursing home or hospice residential facility. However, if the hospice team determines that you need short-term inpatient respite care services that they arrange, your stay in the facility is covered.

• Care in an emergeny room, inpatient facility care or ambulance transportation, unless it's either arrange by your hospice medical team or is related to your terminal hospice.

 

Note: Contact your medical hospice team before you get any of these services, or you might have to pay the entire cost.