IA · guidance
Iowa Medicaid Hospice Provider Manual ch. III § A.8
Palliative Care
Hospice provides palliative care, not active or curative care. Palliative care
means member and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by
anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout
the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional,
social, and spiritual needs and to facilitate member autonomy, access to
information, and choice.
EXCEPTION: The palliative, non-active, and non-curative requirement for
hospice care does not include terminally ill children, up to age 21. Children
may concurrently receive the hospice benefit and curative or active care.
Provenance
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- hhs.iowa.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-01
- Edition
- hpm-2020-10-02
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