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Palliative care is not the same as hospice
Medicare pays for hospice when two doctors certify that a person is expected to live 6 months or less and the person chooses comfort care over treatment to cure. Palliative care can start on the day of diagnosis and run alongside chemotherapy, surgery or dialysis. Every hospice patient gets palliative care, but most palliative patients are not on hospice.