NC · guidance
N.C. Medicaid Clinical Coverage Policy No. 3D § 5.7
Duration of Hospice Care Coverage Benefit Periods
The provider of hospice services shall comply with 42 CFR §418.21, Duration of hospice
care coverage benefit periods. Subject to the conditions set forth in this part:
a. A beneficiary shall elect to receive hospice care during one or more of the following
benefit periods:
1. An initial 90-day period - benefit period;
2. A subsequent 90-day period - benefit period two; or
3. An unlimited number of subsequent 60-day periods- benefit period three to
unlimited.
b. The periods of care are available in the order listed and may be elected separately at
different times.
Provenance
- Source
- medicaid.ncdhhs.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-01
- Edition
- ccp-3d-2024-03-15
- Content hash
09b527a14d57f41ef623185f69911a71c51c7b2daf5e1eeab3a14fec0a549006
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.