Under Medicare law, a patient electing hospice care has the right to declare his or her personal physician or nurse practitioner (NP) as the “hospice attending physician” so that the physician/NP can continue to treat the patient’s terminal and any related conditions even after admission to hospice. This provision of law was included under the…
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