Monday, September 08, 2008 NHPCO Files Suit Against Medicare The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is suing Medicare to stop the rate increase. Guess that will silence all the people who have complained over the years that NHPCO wasn’t aggressive...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 A sign of what is to come? I concluded a post recently by saying that the big corporate hospices had won another battle, and that it was going to be even harder for the small guy to...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 NHPCO Rate Cut Lawsuit Dismissed The lawsuit filed against Medicare by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization has been dismissed. As I understand it, the case was dismissed without any comment on the actual claims of...
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Hospice Lobby Efforts Make the News Found this Associated Press article in the San Jose Mercury News. I’m assuming you could find it in many newspapers across the nation. The story was written before the house passed...
Monday, September 15, 2008 Bills Introduced to Stop the Rate Cut Bills have been introduced in both the House and Senate to stop the Medicare hospice rate cuts. Follow the link to find out the history of the rate cuts, who...
Thursday, March 31, 2005 Time for healing I’m sure that I’m not the first to inform you that Terri Schiavo died this morning.No matter which side of the debate you stood on, it is time to pray for everyone who knew...
Thursday, March 31, 2005 The List I said in this post that one of the biggest downsides to doing hospice work is that you lose the bliss of ignorance. I have a friend who is currently learning this the hard way....
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Living Wills, Terri Schiavo, and POAs Dr. Tony made a very good point in the comments below that I thought I should bring to the top so that I could clarify my thoughts and make sure that...
Thursday, March 31, 2005 The Pope’s End of Life Wishes This article about the Pope’s views on feeding tube and other end of life measures is very interesting to me. PARIS (Reuters) – Pope John Paul, now being fed through a...
Monday, March 21, 2005 The reality of the Terri Schiavo case I’ve said it before, so let me say one more time that I am not someone who has followed the Terri Schiavo case. I do not know every detail, have...