Also Medicare pays for hospice under Part A, not Part B. So it is easily and fully covered,just like inpatient hospitalization is. (I learned recently up close and personal when my father died.) Which I imagine was done (by Congress? dunno) so that more people would not chose to have million-dollar deaths in the ICU, and more medical practioners would advocate hospice care instead of expensive hail-mary-pass end-of-life interventions  And that's backfiring, of course, as the medical-industrial complex is learning to milk that, too. The patient can't really win very easily when medicine is practiced for profit.

Edit to add: end-of-life care in a nursing home is not covered AT ALL. You have to show improvement within a few days or it is not covered by Medicare.(And of course, most know that private insurers are the same - long term care insurance is separate, very expensive and best bought long before you need it.)  So this coverage of hospice (on site or at home) was a big deal, a game changer. I don't know what the rule is as far as how long you have to die before they cut you off.