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 25 percent of hospices with the lowest average per diem costs had costs that were at least 27 percent below the unadjusted payment rate in 2000, and at least 31 percent below the unadjusted payment rate in 2001.n 2000, we estimate that average per diem costs for small freestanding hospices were over 13 percent higher than for medium freestanding ho spices and almost 7 percent higher than for large freestanding hospices.