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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

The company’s Performance Excellence Program (PEP) rewards executives based on three categories — performance on health care-associated infections, morbidity and mortality, and patient care experience. The third issue was a sentence indicating that hospice patients “typically only receive pain medication.”