I work in the home health field and know medicare and medicaid regulations for hospices as well. The Hospice is guilty of medicare/medicaid fraud because they allowed Terri to be treated at their facility. A patient is eligible for hospice if they are diagnosed with a terminal illness - which the "official" definition is 6 months or less to live. The patients must be certified by a MD at admission and every 60-90 days. The certification must state that the patient is terminal (by the official definition). So there is fraud from the hospice, the physicians, the staff at the hospice, HINO, etc. The media has completely overlooked this as it is not a solution to Terri's plight. But I will be following up with the OIG and FL Medicaid System. Felos was involved with this agency when it was fined $$$$ for fraudulent hospice billing to Medicare several years ago so there is a history of fraud and abuse with this agency.
The entire complex should be shut down by the state government, and the doctors who stand by and allow an otherwise healthy disabled woman to be made to suffer the ravages of starvation should lose their license to practice their ghoulish medicine of death.
I do not know how any of the thugs who turned their thumbs down against Terri can feel a sense of triumph, but they do.