Murray-based Quality Health Care has been certified by Medicare to provide hospice care through its Castle Country Care Center in Price, according to Patricia Johnson, president.
She said the facility is half way to obtaining a comprehensive Medicare program. "Our next step at the Price facility is to gain Medicare home health certification as a complement to our hospice services," she said.Hospice licensing permits the Price facility, under federal Medicare regulations, to manage a hospice care program and offer a Medicare program to the patients. Previously, hospice billing was covered by private insurance providers.
Hospice care serves patients with a limited life expectancy whose treatment goal has been established as pain management and symptom control.