# OnCo record medicare-hospice-benefit (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-hospice-benefit/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "medicare-hospice-benefit" ;
  schema:name "Medicare hospice benefit (United States)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Medicare hospice"@en, "hospice benefit"@en ;
  schema:description "In the US, Medicare pays for hospice care with nothing to pay for covered services when a doctor certifies a life expectancy of six months or less and the person chooses comfort care instead of treatment aimed at cure. Care can continue beyond six months if the doctor recertifies."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-hospice-benefit/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/hospice-care> ;
  onco:tag "supportive", "us" ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/hospice-end-of-life/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/hospice-inpatient-and-respite-care/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hospice-at-home/> .