471 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 36, § 004 - CLIENT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The Medicaid Hospice Benefit is available to clients who meet the following criteria:

1. The client is currently eligible for Medicaid;

2. The client is diagnosed as terminally ill by the hospice medical director and the attending physician with a medical prognosis that his/her life expectancy is six months or less if the illness runs its normal course; and

3. The client is an adult and has chosen to receive palliative/comfort care to manage symptoms of terminal illness and has chosen not to receive curative treatment or disease management; or

4. The client is a child and has elected to receive palliative/comfort care to manage symptoms of terminal illness. Such election by a child shall not constitute a waiver of any rights of the child to be provided with, or receive Medicaid payment for, concurrent services related to the treatment of the child's condition for which a diagnosis of terminal illness has been made.

Notes

471 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 36, § 004