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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. billion in one year hospice saved Medicare, and that was by focusing on what matters to people, to patients and families.

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