{"id":6721,"date":"2012-09-18T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/hospice-refuses-doctors-orders\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:00:32","slug":"hospice-refuses-doctors-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/blog\/hospice-refuses-doctors-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When Hospice Refuses Your Doctor\u2019s Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re on Medicare, just because your doctor orders something doesn\u2019t mean all hospices will always give it to you, says <em>The New Old Age<\/em>. So if your hospice refuses to provide, say, a certain kind of pain medicine, what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>Appeal. <em>The New Old Age<\/em> reports on a court ruling that cleared up some confusion. The court found that you can file a claim with Medicare to fight a hospice\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>One reason some hospices refuse certain services to people on Medicare is financial, the blog reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">With hospice, the government pays a flat daily rate that\u2019s meant to cover all necessary comfort care for patients expected to live six months or less. Because hospice providers can\u2019t bill separately for individual items, there is potentially a direct effect on a provider\u2019s bottom line when expensive extra services are ordered.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post tells how to initiate the appeals process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re on Medicare, just because your doctor orders something doesn\u2019t mean all hospices will always give it to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/blog\/hospice-refuses-doctors-orders\/\" class=\"h5 more-link\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[960,961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","category-ways-to-pay-for-home-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - 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