The Hospice CAP is a lifetime limit for each hospice patient. The individual beneficiary CAP is $29,205.44 for the 2019 CAP Year. The total Cap for each hospice is determined on an aggregate basis. This means that all patients are combined for each Cap year when comparing the total CAP. Stated another way, long term hospice patients over the CAP may be offset by those short-term patients that were under the cap and expired.