"Hospice services" means:

1. (1) palliative care for the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and other special needs of a hospice program patient during the final stages of a hospice program patient's terminal illness; and

2. (2) care for the psychological, social, spiritual, and other needs of the hospice program patient's family before and after the hospice program patient's death;

   that is directed by an interdisciplinary team.

As added by P.L.256-1999, SEC.12.