http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hospice-care-success-leads-to.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hospice-care-success-leads-to.html#comment-81897 Christian Sinclair, MD Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/hospice-care-success-leads-to-bankruptcy.html#comment-81897 Hospice guy at <a HREF="www.hospiceblog.org" REL="nofollow">Hospiceblog </a>has been covering this issue with some heated discussions in the comments sections. More in depth then the NYT article. Not as simple as the article puts it out to be. Hospice guy at Hospiceblog has been covering this issue with some heated discussions in the comments sections. More in depth then the NYT article. Not as simple as the article puts it out to be.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/hospice-care-success-leads-to.html#comment-81892 Anonymous Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/hospice-care-success-leads-to-bankruptcy.html#comment-81892 Not so bad as the excerpt suggests. While no one wants to see a medical business model benefit from a patient's timely (or even early) demise, the hospice's here are the victims of their own mission creep. They admit that they have begun providing hospice care for alzheimer's and dementia. These conditions do require great amounts of nursing care, but fall outside the scope of hospice. They expanded their business into these areas because it seemed to make economic sense; only the government as payor thought otherwise in retrospect. Not so bad as the excerpt suggests. While no one wants to see a medical business model benefit from a patient’s timely (or even early) demise, the hospice’s here are the victims of their own mission creep. They admit that they have begun providing hospice care for alzheimer’s and dementia. These conditions do require great amounts of nursing care, but fall outside the scope of hospice. They expanded their business into these areas because it seemed to make economic sense; only the government as payor thought otherwise in retrospect.

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