FL · guidance
Fla. Medicaid Hospice Services Coverage Policy § 2.2
Who Can Receive
Florida Medicaid recipients requiring medically necessary hospice services who meet the
following:
• Certified as terminally ill in accordance with 42 CFR 418.22, except as provided in
paragraph (a)(4).
- No face-to-face examination is required for the third hospice benefit period, nor any
benefit period certification thereafter.
• Elected hospice in accordance with 42 CFR 418.24
- Recipients under the age of 21 years are not required to forego curative treatment as
a result of their hospice election and may continue to receive medically necessary
covered services under the Florida Medicaid program.
Some services may be subject to additional coverage criteria as specified in section 4.0.
Provenance
- Source
- ahca.myflorida.com
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-01
- Edition
- ahca-hospice-2021-12-01
- Content hash
d5a0eca25e9b48f024d450e2e125491aa8058218c167a2bb9fc990cee5ed6302
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