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How long you can get hospice care
Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of6 months or less(if the illness runs its normal course). If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that you’re terminally ill.
You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
You have the right to change your hospice provider once during each benefit period.
At the start of the first 90-day benefit period, your hospice doctor and your regular doctor (if you have one) must certify that you’re terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less). At the start of each benefit period after the first 90-day period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must recertify that you’re terminally ill, so you can continue to get hospice care.
Note
Only your hospice doctor and your regular doctor (if you have one) can certify that you’re terminally ill and have 6 months or less to live.
sauce:
https://www.medicare.gov/what-medicare-covers/what-part-a-covers/how-hospice-works