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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

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Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. It’s hard to say that you have proof. This looks really questionable.”

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Because it suffers from an informative censoring problem. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. Did you have access to any information?