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MHCP Provider Manual, Hospice Services, Overview
Overview
The hospice benefit is a comprehensive package of services offering palliative care support to terminally ill Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) members and their families. Hospice care offers holistic support and relief from pain and other symptoms of the terminal illness.
The MHCP hospice benefit follows the same rules and regulations as the Medicare hospice benefit, which was designed to supplement the care that primary caregivers, such as family (as the member defines family), friends and neighbors provide. The hospice benefit is not intended to replace the supportive role of the member’s informal support network of primary caregivers. As such, MA-covered services that replace the duties of primary caregivers do not duplicate the hospice team’s services. Examples of supportive functions that primary caregivers provide include the following:
• Coordinating the member’s care
• Performing personal care
• Helping with activities of daily living
• Providing nutrition
• Helping with medications
Examples of services that may resemble the supportive role provided by primary caregivers include the following:
• Adult foster care services
• Personal care assistant services
• Home delivered meals
• Lifeline
• Community Alternative Care (CAC), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Brain Injury (BI), Elderly Waiver (EW), and Developmental Disabilities (DD) waiver services, and the Alternative Care program
Provenance
- Source
- www.dhs.state.mn.us
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-02
- Edition
- mhcp-hospice-2025-05-09
- Content hash
44583dab935c05cc82a79bfcbcb90ed61945bfd18168885adc0dda0a58579725
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