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Hospice Care in Tennessee

Tennessee has 61 licensed hospice providers listed on ElderCareCosts across 504 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 Tennessee

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 Tennessee.

  • 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 Tennessee

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

CMS star ratings in Tennessee
CMS starsProviders
5 stars7
4 stars21
3 stars14
2 stars1
1 star0

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Tennessee licensing & regulation

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

Medicaid & local resources in Tennessee

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

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

  • CHOICES. TennCare CHOICES provides nursing facility and HCBS LTSS for seniors 65+ and adults 21+ with physical disabilities. Prior elderly/disabled 1915(c) is terminated on Medicaid.gov; CHOICES operates under TennCare 1115 authorities.
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

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Cities in Tennessee

Showing the 500 largest of 504 tracked cities.

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Counties in Tennessee

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 Tennessee

Hospice Care providers in Tennessee

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

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Frequently asked questions

How many hospice providers are listed in Tennessee?

We currently list 61 licensed hospice providers across Tennessee.

Which cities in Tennessee have hospice care listings?

We track 504 Tennessee cities for hospice care. See the city list on this page for options near you.

Past 60 days in Tennessee: 61 added · 204 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 Tennessee are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Hospice Care in Tennessee. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/tennessee/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Hospice Care in Tennessee." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 17, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospice/tennessee/.

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