Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Newspaper Exposé Slams For-Profit Hospices For Long-Stay, Ineligible Patients

Expect hospice payment reform to get on an even faster track, thanks to a high-profile exposé on for-profit hospices in the Washington Post. The Post recites multiple allegations from whistleblower lawsuits against for-profit companies including AseraCare and Vitas. (For more details on the suits, see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 2 [Asera-Care] and Vol. XXII, No. 17 [Vitas]). It lambastes [...]
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