Industry Note:
Another Prominent Newspaper Addresses Hospice Care
Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014
After a scathing exposé on for-profit hospices recruiting long-stay patients, the New York Times is beating up the industry for discharging patients who are no longer eligible for the Medicare benefit. Hospice discharges are climbing, notes the Times in its "New Old Age" blog. Hospices blame a crackdown on eligibility from Medicare. But one discharged patient’s daughter calls the discharge [...]