by Christine | May 21, 2013 | Elder Care, Hospice |
"The effect is very negative for end-of-life care in the country. The way hospice is designed now may have worked fine 30 years ago, but it doesn’t work now and we need to think about alternatives." U.S. health care has been in flux since 2010, with many...
by Christine | Dec 12, 2012 | Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, Hospice, Medicare |
If President Barack Obama and Congress cannot reach an agreement on the fiscal cliff…it would likely send the country back into recession…and ultimately, it could hurt your physical and emotional health. Financial health and physical health can go hand-in-hand. In...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2012 | Hospice, Medicare |
The unfortunate case of Mr. Back and his case against Medicare makes it clear that beneficiaries have the right to challenge a hospice provider’s refusal to provide a service that a doctor deems necessary, Mr. Deford said. But it’s disappointing because it doesn’t...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2012 | Elder Law, Hospice, Medical Directives, Palliative Care |
It takes strong doctors to stand up to [the kind of verbal abuse that palliative care doctors have to put up with], to explain that courts and ethics committees have approved care that’s intended to reduce suffering, to point out that the patient’s own wishes are...
by Christine | Jan 25, 2012 | Elder Law, Hospice, Medicare, Nursing Homes |
A national hospice company improperly cycled patients through nursing homes and hospice with a goal of making as much profit as possible from Medicare, according to a whistleblower lawsuit announced this week. Healthcare lawsuits involving the various ways that the...
