Hospice Care in Wisconsin. Cost & Providers

How hospice costs work in Wisconsin

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 Wisconsin.

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 Wisconsin

CMS overall star ratings for 55 hospice providers in Wisconsin. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in Wisconsin
CMS stars	Providers
5 stars	4
4 stars	26
3 stars	21
2 stars	3
1 star	1

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Wisconsin licensing & regulation

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

Medicaid & local resources in Wisconsin

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

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

Family Care Waiver. Wisconsin 1915(c) Family Care Waiver for adults 65+, adults 18–64 with physical/other disabilities, and adults with I/DD (CMS factsheet).

Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

Free national starting points. Official sites only; we do not scrape these directories.

Eldercare Locator · 800-677-1116
Free nationwide connection to local aging services.
211
Local health and human services referrals.
NCOA BenefitsCheckUp
Screen for benefits you may qualify for.
DIAL
ACL Disability Information and Access Line.
VA health benefits
Veterans health care and long-term care programs.

Cities in Wisconsin

Showing the 500 largest of 808 tracked cities.

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Counties in Wisconsin

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 Wisconsin

Hospice Care providers in Wisconsin

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

Hospice Care · Milwaukee, WI