How much does a hospice cost a week?

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing and this is what I found, from a 2010 report:

Routine Home Care Day: $146.63. This category is for individuals receiving hospice care at home. The rate does not vary by volume or intensity of services.

Continuous Home Care Day: $855.79 for 24 hours, or $35.66 per hour. individuals in this category must need services for a period of at least eight hours (one-half of which must be skilled nursing) within a 24-hour period

beginning at midnight, but only for brief periods of crisis and only as necessary to maintain the terminally ill individual at home.

Inpatient Respite Care Day: $151.67. Care may be provided for no more than five days at a time in an inpatient facility. General Inpatient Care Day: $652.27. Care may be provided in a Medicare-certified hospital, skilled nursing facility, or inpatient unit of a hospice.

Medicare payments to hospices are subject to an overall aggregate per patient "cap amount." The Medicare fiscal intermediary calculates each hospice's cap amount by multiplying the adjusted cap amount by the number of Medicare beneficiaries who elected to receive hospice care from that hospice during the cap period, beginning November 1 and ending October 31 of the following year. Each hospice must refund Medicare payments in excess of this aggregated cap amount. The cap amount is adjusted annually for inflation or deflation.

For the year ending October 31, 2010, the cap amount is $23,874.98.