As soon as the patient dies the hospice loses money. I’m skeptical that a hospice wouldn’t use an IV in a situation where a patient needed it to live.
Also I believe that hospice is only for people who don’t have any hope, to die in comfort. If a person had hope they wouldn’t be in hospice, they would be either in a hospital or nursing home.
This is what I think. I don’t know this for a fact.