I think this is rather telling and could be an indicator of some really low-life "right to die" type stuff going on at Suncoast.
Of 264 cases active in the Suncoast hospice over 210 days when Operation Restore Trust did their review, 176 were not eligible for hospice coverage and for 118 they were unable to conclusively determine their terminal illness. That's 44.69%!
Compare this to only 78 cases in San Diego in which 37 were ineligible and only 19 for which they were unable to determine terminal illness. 24%
Compare this also to Dallas with only 26 active cases in which 20 were not eligible, and only 2 for which "medical records... were insufficient to conclusively determine a life expectancy of 6 months or less, as required by Medicare. 7.69%
I have the .pdf files of each of the reports citing these numbers. I got them from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General's website.
I'm telling you, something is really fishy at Suncoast.