Advertisement“We support and want to see high-quality, good hospice care in our state and want to see it continue to grow,” Allen told the Senate Health Committee this week. More than 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries now receive care from some 5,000 hospices, the vast majority of them for-profit operators. “Californians who are dying deserve far better than to be exploited by corrupt hospice providers,” she said. To qualify for hospice, patients must be certified as terminally ill by their attending physicians, if they have them, and by a hospice doctor. AdvertisementBut many of those signed up by recruiters with promises of medical care, equipment or housekeeping services were not dying, The Times found.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 30, 2021 16:02 UTC