GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING HOSPICE LEVELS OF CARE
To help support both patients and family caregivers at the end-of-life, Medicare provides four levels of care under the hospice benefit. They are: routine home care, continuous home care, general inpatient care (GIP), and respite care. This guide should help you better understand the differences between each of these types of care. Routine Home Care. This is the type of hospice care familiar to most people. The full complement of hospice services ranging from nursing care to
