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Comfort Promised: Hospice Care Failures | Episode 80
When a family chooses hospice, they’re giving up curative treatment in exchange for one promise: comfort. In part four of our end-of-life series, Michelle Carroll, Founder and Chief Clinical Strategist of Lexcura Summit, looks at what happens when that promise breaks down.
Hospice is under more federal scrutiny than ever. CMS has put a nationwide freeze on new hospice enrollments, suspended payments to hundreds of agencies, and put six states under heightened oversight. Michelle explains how fraud and poor care tend to show up together. She walks through the federal rules that set the…
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