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Hospice care in Athens, GA

Medicare pays for hospice in full for anyone who qualifies, at home or in a facility. These are the Medicare-certified hospice providers serving Athens.

6 Medicare-certified hospice providers in Athens

825 Baxter Street · (706) 705-6000

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
02/27/2014

Affinity Hospice

Not rated

105 Westpark Drive, Suite A · (205) 949-0400

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
10/16/2008

Amedisys Hospice

Not rated

1061 Dowdy Road Suite 206 · (706) 369-3550

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
06/23/2011

Compassus-Athens

Not rated

2470 Daniels Bridge Road Bldg 100 Suite 181 · (706) 354-1707

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
04/18/2007

Family Hospice

Not rated

1550 Timothy Rd, Suite 203 · (800) 410-4663

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
01/28/2020

Gentiva

Not rated

575 Research Drive, Ste A · (706) 549-5736

Ownership: For-Profit

Medicare-certified since
06/21/2004

Common questions

How many hospice providers are there in Athens?

Medicare lists 6 certified hospice providers in Athens. CMS has not published star ratings for these.

What does the CMS star rating actually measure?

Medicare combines three things into one overall rating: state health inspection results, staffing levels reported from payroll data, and clinical quality measures. It is a federal rating, not our assessment, and a facility can be rated well on one and poorly on another.

Does Medicare or Medicaid pay for this?

Every facility listed here is Medicare-certified. What Medicare pays for and for how long depends on the type of care and your situation, so confirm coverage with the facility and with your plan before you commit.

Where this data comes from

Ratings and quality measures on this page come from CMS Hospice Care Compare, published August 2026. They are Medicare's assessments, not ours. We report the federal figures as published, with the file's own date, and we do not compute a score of our own or rank one facility against another.

CMS suppresses some measures for small facilities, so a blank is missing data rather than a poor result. Ratings are refreshed each quarter from the source file. Confirm anything that matters directly with the facility before you act on it.

Compiled and maintained by the Black Health editorial team. Found something wrong? Tell us and we will check it against the source.