It occurs when your nerves are damaged by an injury or disease, such as diabetes. Your nerves send extra electrical signals to the brain. This causes pain when you do something that is not normally painful, like putting on shoes. Diabetic nerve pain is a sign that the nerves in your feet or hands are damaged.
Medicare paid an average of $153 per day, per person, in 2010 to cover hospice care, in the following categories: 1  Routine home care â $146.63 per day for services that patients need on a day-to-day basis.
This means that half of hospice patients receive care for less than three weeks and half receive care for more than three weeks. The average LOS is 72.6 days. 5 Approximately 34.5% of hospice patients receive care for just seven days or less. 48.8% of patients die or are discharged within 14 days of admission. 1 Only 11.5% of patients remain under hospice care for longer than 180 days.