Are Hospice patients eligible for support and wound care dressings and supplies under Medicare Part B coverage?
When Medicare beneficaries choose hospice care, they give up the right to standard Medicare benefits “only” for treatment of the terminal illness. If the patient, who must have Part A in order to use the Medicare hospice benefit, also has Medicare Part B he or she can use an appropriate Medicare Part B benefts for the treatment of other health problems “unrelated” to the terminal illness.
