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Assuming this is an in-home hospice AND they are able physically move to the new State (they are ambulatory enough to travel safely), you could have them enroll with a hospice group that is in both States. & Medicare is being billed for hospice. VITAS is the biggest hospice provider in the US. If ViTAS has service area in both places, that’s who I’d go with. This way you get a “continuity of care” done within VITAS as all the info on the patient is within the bigger VITAS database.

Medicare is a federal so crosses State lines for billing. Hospice is a Medicare Part A benefit. So it is “self directed” which means you as the person enrolled on MediCARE can choose the vendor to provide the service. This tends to be really downplayed by hospice……. families end up going with whomever is the main hospice group the hospital or the physician or the NH knows of and refers to. But you can switch hospice providers. And it’s on both hospice companies to do the paperwork needed once you tell them there will be a change.

What you could use for the rationale for the move, is that by being in the new State enables many more family members be able to be in the home for oversight & care for the hospice individual for the period of time when hospice staff is not present. which is a requirement.

BUT if the elder is in a facility, like in a SNF/NH, and is on hospice and is not totally ambulatory, that is a totally different situation. That is way waaaaaaay complicated. Personally I don’t see this happening unless there is a ton of $$$$ both the individual on hospice has and/ or their family has.
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It is difficult to make a move while dying.
Details will help us here. Tell us all about the plan and the need for a move.
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qureshia110 6 hours ago
Making a move while struggling is tough, but details can guide us. Share the full plan and reasons—it’ll help us find the best way forward!
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Have you asked the current Hospice agency? The details for these things vary between states, and probably between agencies even in the same state. Hospice will know their own rules and should be able to recommend an agency in the new state and work out the paperwork transfer details with them.

If you want to know how the move will be done physically, you may need to arrange that yourselves, but ask the current agency before you get too far into it. Clearly the physical transfer arrangement of your 'elderly person' will depend on how far it is between the old and the new. NY to LA is a very different matter from 'just over the border' for neighboring states.
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