Bereavement

left-of-center2012

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3. "their silly little bureaucratic rules"

Fri Jul 19, 2019, 06:36 PM

Jul 2019

Yes, hospice has rules and regulations.

I saw this just now online:
"Many kidney-failure patients must halt dialysis to receive hospice care"

As they approach the end of their lives, many patients with end-stage renal disease face a harrowing choice: Continue dialysis treatment or enter hospice care. Medicare currently will not pay simultaneously for dialysis and hospice care for patients with a terminal diagnosis of renal failure. Patients who want hospice care usually must first halt the dialysis treatments that keep them alive.

Medicare's requirement to halt dialysis before hospice leads some patients to forgo hospice entirely.

Full article at:

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/many-kidney-failure-patients-must-halt-dialysis-receive-hospice-care

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What a doctor wishes patients knew about the end [View all] left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 OP

My experience with "To the caregivers: Don't be afraid to leave the room" Siwsan Jul 2019 #1

Well, hospice insisted my spouse come off dialysis Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #2

"their silly little bureaucratic rules" left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 #3

Yup our family had to face this harrowing choice Farmer-Rick Jul 2019 #4

when we decided to bring my mom home orleans Jul 2019 #5

I was my sister's POA and the only one who was near her 24/7 as she entered her final days. susanna Aug 2019 #6