hospices

Private equity firms are seeing opportunities for profit in hospice care, once the domain of nonprofit organizations. The investment companies are transforming the industry — and might be jeopardizing patient care — in the process.

The HHS inspector general recommended that Suncoast Hospice refund to the federal government the portion of the $47.36 million that is within a four-year “claims reopening period.”

A budding bipartisan deal to shelter physicians from Medicare cuts, championed by the House's two top leaders, is drawing powerful allies including the…