Medicare Hospice Care in Tucker, GA

5 Hospice found. Showing 1 - 5

1st Care Palliative and Hospice Services
Medicare Approved
Location: 1399 Montreal Road Ste 202, Tucker, Georgia 30084
Phone: (770) 696-1518

Divine Guardian, LLC
Medicare Approved
Location: 2321 4th Street, Suite 210, Tucker, Georgia 30084
Phone: (770) 837-0673

Generations Hospice and Palliative Care LLC
Medicare Approved
Location: 2321 4th Street, Ste 107, Tucker, Georgia 30084
Phone: (404) 386-2005

Guardian Angels Hospice
Medicare Approved
Location: 3469 Lawrenceville Hwy #205, Tucker, Georgia 30084
Phone: (470) 242-5682

Southern Comfort Hospice, LLC
Medicare Approved
Location: 100 Crescent Centre Pkwy, Suite 395, Tucker, Georgia 30084
Phone: (470) 354-3231

Hospice Care

Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. Care may be provided in a patient's home or in a designated facility such as nursing home, hospital unit or freestanding hospice, with level of care and sometimes location based upon frequent evaluation of the paients needs. The four primary levels of care provided by hospice are routine home care, continuous care, general inpatient and respite care.

Medicare Program: Medicare is a federal government program which provides health insurance to people who are 65 or older. This program also covers certain younger people with disabilities (who receive Social Security Disability Insurance - SSDI), and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD.

Medicare Assignment: Assignment means that your doctor, provider, or supplier agrees (or is required by law) to accept the Medicare-approved amount as full payment for covered services. Most doctors, providers, and suppliers accept assignment, but you should always check to make sure. Participating providers have signed an agreement to accept assignment for all Medicare-covered services.

NPI Number: The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions. Covered health care providers and all health plans and health care clearinghouses must use the NPIs in the administrative and financial transactions adopted under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

Our Data: Information on www.medicarelist.com is built using data sources published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The information disclosed on the NPI Registry are FOIA-disclosable and are required to be disclosed under the FOIA and the eFOIA amendments to the FOIA. There is no way to 'opt out' or 'suppress' the NPPES record data for health care providers with active NPIs.