To be eligible for hospice care, patients must meet the Medicare and Medicaid established requirements. 

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Hospice eligibility requirements:

• Patient has been diagnosed with a life-limiting condition with a prognosis of six months or less if their disease runs its normal course

• Frequent hospitalizations in the past six months

• Change in cognitive and functional abilities

• Progressive weight loss 

• Increasing weakness and fatigue

• Skin breakdown

• A change in cognitive and functional abilities

• Specific decline in condition

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