[buckalfa]

Reimbursement for services unfortunately can enter the picture. Some insurance payors reimburse hospice on a per case basis, thus pressure to keep costs low on any one patient, thus opening up “temptation” to hasten the process. Just think what temptations migh exist under national healthcare reimbursement ?

[isrul]

It's frightening.

[isrul]

Just remembered that I heard somewhere that medicare won't pay for a “live discharge”. That's disturbing.

[Nowhere Man]

Reimbursement for services unfortunately can enter the picture. Some insurance payors reimburse hospice on a per case basis, thus pressure to keep costs low on any one patient, thus opening up “temptation” to hasten the process. Just think what temptations migh exist under national healthcare reimbursement ?

I'd stay away from places that are county run, here in the Pittsburgh area, my aunt when there for hospice care and she died a few days later. We can't prove it but my mom and aunt, her sisters, always did believe they hastened her death. At the same place, recently, somebody died when their wheelchair went down the stairs, from family history, same place, my great-grandfather died that way in the same manner.