Medicare is getting ripped off by hospice providers.
A new report details ways in which the federal government's health care program for the elderly is routinely overpaying hospice providers for prescription drugs and inpatient care.
Medicare is paying for unnecessary inpatient care for roughly 30 percent of the hospice patients that it covers. In most of those cases, auditors found, the patient should have been receiving treatment at home, rather than in a hospice facility. And in another large chunk of the cases, the patient only needed a brief stay at a facility, but the hospice provider was nevertheless billing for long-term inpatient care.
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