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If you want to know how the move will be done physically, you may need to arrange that yourselves, but ask the current agency before you get too far into it. Clearly the physical transfer arrangement of your 'elderly person' will depend on how far it is between the old and the new. NY to LA is a very different matter from 'just over the border' for neighboring states.
Details will help us here. Tell us all about the plan and the need for a move.
Medicare is a federal so crosses State lines for billing. Hospice is a Medicare Part A benefit. So it is “self directed” which means you as the person enrolled on MediCARE can choose the vendor to provide the service. This tends to be really downplayed by hospice……. families end up going with whomever is the main hospice group the hospital or the physician or the NH knows of and refers to. But you can switch hospice providers. And it’s on both hospice companies to do the paperwork needed once you tell them there will be a change.
What you could use for the rationale for the move, is that by being in the new State enables many more family members be able to be in the home for oversight & care for the hospice individual for the period of time when hospice staff is not present. which is a requirement.
BUT if the elder is in a facility, like in a SNF/NH, and is on hospice and is not totally ambulatory, that is a totally different situation. That is way waaaaaaay complicated. Personally I don’t see this happening unless there is a ton of $$$$ both the individual on hospice has and/ or their family has.
If on hospice, it seems better for their loved ones to visit them where they are rather than move them. A dying person should be left in peace to come to terms with leaving this plane, not expected to uproot themselves. Moving is a hassle for anyone, much less for someone in a weakened condition. I'd veto this idea for all the above reasons.