A Fraud Freeze Reaches the Hospice Door

The Firing Line, published by Barking Justice Media, reported a nationwide freeze on enrolling new home health and hospice providers. Authors Mika Douglas and Robert Anderson write that hospice fraud and home-health fraud are both real, and that the harm to seniors is real, which is the reason they question the tool the administration chose to address it.

Their argument is that a blunt enrollment freeze risks turning a patient-protection problem into an access problem. When no new providers can enroll, the families relying on hospice and home health may pay the price for an enforcement measure aimed at the operators committing the fraud.