Hospice Care | What It Costs and How Your State Licenses It

Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less. It is delivered wherever the person lives — at home, in assisted living, in a nursing facility, or in a dedicated inpatient unit.

Short answer

We list 0 verified hospice care providers across your metro. Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less.

Three things worth knowing first

Medicare's hospice benefit covers the hospice team, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, and equipment. It does not cover room and board in a facility.
Palliative care is not the same thing. It focuses on symptom relief and can run alongside treatment intended to cure, at any stage.
You can change hospice providers, and you can revoke hospice and return to curative treatment.

You can check any facility's record free. Call HHSC's Complaint and Incident Intake line at 1-800-458-9858 for any Texas facility's complaint and inspection history. Assisted living is not CMS star-rated -- only nursing homes are. Read the full explanation →

Verified hospice care across the region

We list 0 verified hospice care providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

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Questions families ask

Do Fort Worth assisted living facilities have to disclose past violations to families?

Texas law does not require a facility to hand a prospective resident its inspection history unprompted, but that history is public and available through HHSC. Ask directly for a copy, or pull it yourself through HHSC's Complaint and Incident Intake line before you tour.

Does Texas Medicaid pay for assisted living in Fort Worth?

Texas Medicaid pays for care services inside a participating assisted living facility through the STAR+PLUS HCBS waiver, but it does not pay the facility's room-and-board charge -- that portion remains the resident's financial responsibility, typically funded from the resident's own income.

What's the difference between Texas's Medicaid expansion and Medicaid for seniors?

Texas has not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, but that decision has no bearing on long-term-care Medicaid for seniors, which is a completely separate, decades-old eligibility pathway for people who are 65 or older, or blind or disabled.

How does a Fort Worth family apply for the STAR+PLUS HCBS waiver?

Apply through Your Texas Benefits online, or call Texas 2-1-1 and ask for the aging and disability services option. A Texas HHSC caseworker will complete a nursing-facility level-of-care assessment as part of determining eligibility.

Hospice Care in your area

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