[8mmMauser]

Medicare played a key financial role in the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo and maybe for other disabled and incapacitated adults in the United States today, providing hospice care in such facilities as Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, operated by the Hospice of Florida Suncoast, where Terri died last March 31 of starvation and dehydration, and at the Hospice of Florida Southwest where New York's Ted Stith died earlier this week.

Medicare Reimbursements Key In Schiavo Hospice Stay

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[8mmMauser]

Eleven months later, Terri and her legacy are still hot topics, just will not MoveOn. Here is another survey:

Terri is number eight in their list of top stories for 2005.

The Associated Press survey of U.S. editors

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[gopheraj]

Very good article. Thanks. From the below excerpt I wonder why in the world that facility has NOT been charged or shut down. It's not like the fraudulent claims are a small mistake. Looks like to me they are in the killing business and the government was funding them.


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is still trying to recover $14.8 million from Hospice of Florida Suncoast paid to them as a result of fraudulent claims made for Medicare reimbursement for patients not terminally ill----such as Terri Schindler-Schiavo---and therefore not eligible for hospice care.

[TheSpottedOwl]

How much does Woodside owe to Medicare? Shouldn't they have to reimburse them under the Hospice requirements?

[floriduh voter]

DEATH WORSHIPPERS AT HOSPICE OF THE SUNCOAST (HOSPICE WOODSIDE)

That "hope scores" consistently rise in our patients after being admitted to hospice. We work hard at changing, realigning, and transforming hopes of our patients from "hope for a cure" to the many and diverse hopes of the dying.

excerpted from NCG

FV says: "many and diverse hopes of the dying." How about BRAINWASHING, THIEVERY AND MURDER? That's the real story.