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Hospice Care in Rhode Island

Rhode Island has 11 licensed hospice providers listed on ElderCareCosts across 36 cities. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

11 licensed hospice providers listed · 6 with CMS star ratings.

How hospice costs work in Rhode Island

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 Rhode Island.

  • 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 Rhode Island

CMS overall star ratings for 6 hospice providers in Rhode Island. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in Rhode Island
CMS starsProviders
5 stars0
4 stars5
3 stars1
2 stars0
1 star0

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Rhode Island licensing & regulation

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

Medicaid & local resources in Rhode Island

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Rhode Island Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in Rhode Island 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.

  • Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS). Rhode Island has no active 1915(c) elderly/disabled HCBS waiver on the Medicaid.gov factsheet. Elderly HCBS is delivered under state Medicaid LTSS / 1115 authorities — confirm current branded program names on EOHHS before publishing eligibility claims.
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

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Cities in Rhode Island

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Counties in Rhode Island

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 Rhode Island

Hospice Care providers in Rhode Island

Sample of licensed hospice providers listed for Rhode Island. City pages show fuller local inventories.

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Frequently asked questions

How many hospice providers are listed in Rhode Island?

We currently list 11 licensed hospice providers across Rhode Island.

Which cities in Rhode Island have hospice care listings?

We track 36 Rhode Island cities for hospice care. See the city list on this page for options near you.

Past 60 days in Rhode Island: 11 added · 35 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 Rhode Island are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Hospice Care in Rhode Island. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/rhode-island/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Hospice Care in Rhode Island." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/rhode-island/.

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