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For-Profit or Nonprofit, Hospice Is Not a ‘Hustle’

Hospice News

Today, patients are enrolling in hospice with a wider range of diagnoses, some of which have a much less predictable trajectory than most cancers. of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to NHPCO. days for the overall hospice population. Hospice costs money. Dementia patients represented 20.9%

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