Hospices waiting for official notice of Medicaid rates will find they look very familiar, since they are almost the same as Medicare rates. See the rates -- $153.65 (Routine Home Care), $895.91 (Continuous Home Care), $167.07 (Inpa-tient Respite Care), and $682.59 (General Inpatient Care) -- in a Sept. 7 CMS memo at . The In-patient Respite Care rate varies the most in comparison with Medicare rates for fiscal year 2013, which are in a transmittal at . Rates take effect Oct. 1.