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.
Though the average length-of-stay figure was drawn higher by the 12% of patients who remain in hospice longer than 180 days, half of patients spend 19.7 days or less in hospice. That figure also is down since 2008, when the median hospice stay was 21.3 days, said the report (link).