Following a Dec. 3 decision to remove a reportedly 400-year-old tree known to residents as “Jolene,” some in Kyle want decision-makers to explore other options.
2024 was filled with home care news — from unique mergers and acquisitions to the government’s crackdown on hospice fraud to a historic Medicare fraud scheme involving urinary catheters. Rising to the ...
Although hospice care and palliative care are both used to ease symptoms and improve the quality of life of people with serious medical conditions, their aims and intent are different. Hospice care is ...
A physician who worked for two Pasadena hospices was sentenced Monday to 24 months in federal prison for defrauding Medicare out of more than $3.2 million through ...
He adopted diagnoses provided to him by hospice employees regardless of their validity or without speaking to those patients' primary care physicians. Medicare paid on Dr. Contreras' false evaluations ...