The seventh season of the USA series "Royal Pains" may be the penultimate chapter before the medical drama ends, according to executive producer Michael Rauch and co-showrunner Andrew Lenchewski, who spoke with the Hollywood Reporter.

In November 2014, "Royal Pains" was renewed for two eight-episode seasons. But the waiting game that led to that renewal caused the showrunners to worry that the eighth season of the series would be the show's last.

"The thought of not being able to end a show that we love and characters whom we love so much with the proper ending would have been heartbreaking," said Rauch. "We want to seize this opportunity and make assumptions that the end of season eight will be the end of the series so that we can plan accordingly."

According to Lenchewski, the 16 episodes will allow writers to methodically work toward an end point for the characters and their respective journeys. The two men are coming to terms with how they plan to leave Hank, Evan, Paige, Divya, Jeremiah and Boris. Planning ahead, they'll be able to make the last two seasons as fun and dramatic as possible. They plan to do so by depositing treats from earlier season, bringing back fan favorites and taking "smaller episode-to-episode story lines and organically tie them into the bigger picture," said Rauch.

"USA has not said this is the end, and they haven't said this isn't the end. It probably makes sense for them not to announce it at least yet, but no show on USA has run longer than eight seasons and we don't expect this too. Of course we always keep hope alive," said Rauch. "But the feeling that we have gotten is that it would make sense to plan for these two to be the end of the show. We feel creatively and emotionally that it's better to do that, and if there's some wonderful surprise coming around the corner, fantastic -- we can always adjust. But as Andrew mentioned earlier, we feel so lucky to have the opportunity to choose how we finish these stories that we really want to do it as best we can."

Fans can look forward to Hank-Boris adventures, storyline crossovers, Divya's custody battle and so much more.

"Royal Pains" returns Tuesday at 10 p.m. on USA.

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