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Randy Dotinga
Slowly dying patients, an audit and a hospice's undoing
By
Randy Dotinga
|
12:16 pm |
January 16, 2013
Across the country, hospices with generous admissions policies may find themselves on life support. Medicare, which heavily funds hospice programs, is cracking down on the industry's growing habit of embracing those whose deaths aren't imminent.