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.
The incremental costs incurred by patients on their last full day of hospital stay were $420 per day on average, or just 2.4 percent of the $17,734 average total cost. End-of-stay costs represented only a slightly higher percentage of total costs when the length of stay was as short as four days. Even for patients who did not have major operations, the $432 average last-day cost was only 3.4 percent of the $12,631 average total cost of care.