Hospice care has been a major driver of increased Medicare spending over the past decade.
The increased spending is not just a reflection of the fact that people are living longer with diseases that will ultimately kill them.
It is also a reflection of Medicare bending its own rules on the use of hospice care to allow patients to be in hospice for much longer than the service is intended.
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