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Hospice Care in New Jersey

New Jersey has 61 licensed hospice providers listed on ElderCareCosts across 700 cities. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

61 licensed hospice providers listed · 43 with CMS star ratings.

How hospice costs work in New Jersey

For people enrolled in the Medicare hospice benefit, covered hospice services are generally about $0 out of pocket: nursing, aides, medications related to the terminal illness, medical equipment, and grief support. That is a benefit design fact, not a local price quote for New Jersey.

  • Room and board is separate. If your parent is in a nursing home or assisted living while on hospice, Medicare hospice does not pay the facility rent. The family, Medicaid, or long-term care insurance usually covers that.
  • When families do pay: care unrelated to the hospice diagnosis, private-duty extras the hospice does not cover, or hospice outside Medicare (rare private-pay arrangements). Always ask what is billed to whom.
  • Official overview: Medicare.gov hospice care.

CMS rating distribution in New Jersey

CMS overall star ratings for 43 hospice providers in New Jersey. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in New Jersey
CMS starsProviders
5 stars3
4 stars12
3 stars19
2 stars7
1 star2

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New Jersey licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for New Jersey are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in New Jersey

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in New Jersey resolve concerns about care and rights.

Official Ombudsman locator / program page

Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOV

Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs

Named programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.

  • Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS). New Jersey has no active 1915(c) elderly HCBS waiver on the Medicaid.gov factsheet; elderly / disabled LTSS is delivered through NJ FamilyCare MLTSS under the Comprehensive Demonstration (1115).
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

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Cities in New Jersey

Showing the 500 largest of 700 tracked cities.

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Counties in New Jersey

County pages carry the local Area Agency on Aging, the state Medicaid waiver contacts and, for nursing homes, what federal inspectors recorded. Ordered by how many hospice care providers each county holds.

Hospice Care by county in New Jersey

Hospice Care providers in New Jersey

Sample of licensed hospice providers listed for New Jersey. City pages show fuller local inventories.

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Frequently asked questions

How many hospice providers are listed in New Jersey?

We currently list 61 licensed hospice providers across New Jersey.

Which cities in New Jersey have hospice care listings?

We track 700 New Jersey cities for hospice care. See the city list on this page for options near you.

Past 60 days in New Jersey: 61 added · 203 updated. Most recent change Sep 1. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not confirmed licensing actions.

How to cite this page

Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, licensed hospice providers in New Jersey are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Hospice Care in New Jersey. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/new-jersey/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Hospice Care in New Jersey." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 17, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/new-jersey/.

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