Hospice Informed consent Medicare 
Hospice News
JUNE 5, 2024
A slew of fraudulent hospices in California are dodging consequences by shuffling patients around between provider numbers. That’s according to multiple sources who spoke with Hospice News, expressing their concerns about patterns of fraud continuing even as government regulators crack down on the sector.
Hospice News
JULY 16, 2024
Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News. It just shocks the conscience what these fraudulent hospices are doing to people.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Devon, welcome to GeriPal. Eric: Yeah.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Thus, we envision creating an ethics-based, education-focused informed consent process that allows patients to weigh treatment risks versus potential benefits collaboratively to enhance opioid prescribing safety (165).
GeriPal
MARCH 9, 2023
And we chose that in part because that will just help with the scientific question of the blinding, but there’s data in how we can use oral ketamine in patients with cancer who are in hospice, and they do have some benefit in maybe mood or anxiety that is at least shortly lived, if not lasts more than a week or so.
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