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Blue Shield Hospice

425 E Colorado St Unit 480B -, Glendale, CA 91205

(818) 855-9729
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Not graded

We have not graded this hospice. CMS has published no Hospice Care Index, no family caregiver survey and no record of visits in the last days of life for it, usually because it is new, very small, or served too few patients for measures to be reported. We would rather say we do not know than give it a middling grade it has not earned.

Ownership
n/a
Medicare certified
March 2022
Patients on any given day
17
CCN
B31723

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Blue Shield Hospice, ElderGrade ungraded summary card

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What this costs you

If the patient has Medicare Part A and a doctor certifies a life expectancy of six months or less, the Medicare Hospice Benefit pays this provider directly. The family pays nothing for hospice visits, nursing, medicines related to the terminal illness, or equipment. No hospice may charge you for those and none may ask for a deposit. Medicare paid this provider an average of $21,716 per patient over the measurement period. That is what the federal government spent, not what a family pays, we publish it because it is the number the provider is paid on.

Was anyone there at the end?

Hospice is judged on the last few days more than anything else. These are this provider's numbers against the national average.

Admissions that got the full set of screenings, pain, breathlessness, treatment wishes, beliefs99%
National average 92%Better than average
Nurse minutes per routine home care day10.8 min
National average 20.1 minBelow average

Where they provide care

  • In their own home 100%

Who they care for

Main diagnosis of their patients.

  • Heart and circulatory disease 57%
  • Dementia 26%

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Questions families ask about Blue Shield Hospice

Does Blue Shield Hospice cost anything?
No. If the patient has Medicare Part A and a doctor certifies a life expectancy of six months or less, the Medicare Hospice Benefit pays Blue Shield Hospice directly for visits, nursing, equipment and medicines related to the terminal illness. The family is not billed for those and no hospice may ask for a deposit.
Where does Blue Shield Hospice provide care?
Most of this hospice's care is delivered in their own home, 100% of its patients. Hospice is a service rather than a place, so the team travels to wherever the patient is living.

Source: CMS Hospice Provider Data (10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025) and the CAHPS Hospice Survey (10/01/2023-09/30/2025), published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ElderGrade takes no payment from hospices, chains or placement agencies, and holds no photographs of this provider. Graded 3 November 2026. How we source our data.

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