Mileage?

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This may be a silly question, but I don't have any clue about Hospice nursing and mileage and I would like to know more about what that means? Do all Hospice jobs require you to travel to patient's homes?

If you are seeing home hospice patients, then yes. Mileage refers to how much you are reimbursed per mile. The figure goes up and down with gas prices, typically quarterly. If you are working for an inpatient hospice, then you probably won't get mileage reimbursement unless you are a liason or admissions nurse. I think mileage is probably reimbursed at about 45 to 70 cents/mile depending on state/company choice and mileage to/from your home to office is not typically covered unless you are working on-call.

Specializes in LTC, Hospice, Case Management.

Ours is $0.21. Seems really low

Specializes in School Nursing.

.21 is low. We get .44 and even that is low, from what I'm told.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

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  • 57.5 cents per mile for business miles driven, up from 56 cents in 2014
  • 23 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, down half a cent from 2014
  • 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations

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Ours is $0.21. Seems really low

...that's awful.

I get travel time and mileage. I don't know the exact figures, let me check.

Specializes in Hospice Nursing.

I think we are at 50 cents/ mile now

Unless you work an inpatient hospice unit, then yes, you would go to the patient's home or where they are living (such as an LTC facility).

Specializes in Hospice. Worked ER, Med-Surg, ICU & ALF-Dementia.

I really do not pay much attention to mileage since my hospice company likes to put us in areas close to home. And travelling is one thing I do not really care much about anyway. But they do pay us $p 0.50 to 0.57 a mile.

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