For-Profit Hospices Often Aim for Return on Investment, Not Death With Dignity

Easy access to Medicare dollars without medical training has made hospice attractive to investors and con artists.

It was something of a radical idea: that the terminally ill deserve a guide to shepherd them peacefully through life’s final transit, and that a special care service might help confront the ubiquitous anguish of death. Hospice is an ancient Roman Catholic tradition, but in its recognizably modern form, it dates only to the 1960s. From the beginning, hospice was as much an ethos as a health care...

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