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Congress Grills HHS on Hospice Program Integrity

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Members of Congress are raising questions about the continued Medicare certification for new hospices in areas rife with fraud. Some of these providers engaged in referral kickback schemes, enrolled patients who were not eligible for hospice and lied to them about being terminally ill. of hospices) 2024 (No.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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Melissa: Well, we have a long history of looking at some of the evidence around differences in patient populations and care processes and outcome for patients based on hospice ownership, comparing for-profit and nonprofit hospices. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. It’s obviously profitable.

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