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Study Debunks Nursing Home/Home Dichotomy For Hospice
Published on Fri Dec 12, 2014
‘Crossover’ patients see longest stays, highest costs, study finds. Nursing home residents receiving hospice services have become one of the feds’ favorite fraud hot spots, but that thinking may be misguided, a new study contends. Researchers at the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research set out to compare the characteristics of hospice patients in nursing homes [...]