Section 144-120-2.A - Requirements2.A.1. No Hospice Provider may provide hospice care services without receiving a license from the Department, authorizing such services or operation.2.A.2. No Hospice Provider shall accept any remuneration for delivering hospice services without having first secured. a license authorizing its operation in accordance with these regulations. 2.A.3 Beginning July 1, 1996, any hospice program, except a volunteer hospice program, must be Medicare certified and meet Medicare requirements to be eligible for licensure as a hospice program. 10-144 C.M.R. ch. 120, § 2.A