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Largest Hospice Fraud Settlement Ever Should Put Providers On Guard

Published on Fri Nov 03, 2017

Compensation, marketing practices cost VITAS. You'd better take a hard look at the financial incentives you furnish to your staff, clinical documentation for longer-stay patients, and your length of stay stats compared to your peers, if you hope to avoid the fate of the nation's largest for-profit hospice chain. VITAS Healthcare Services, VITAS Healthcare Corp., and VITAS parent Chemed Corp. [...]
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