The deal, which will take Enhabit private, comes after private equity investments in healthcare reached record highs last ...

Physicians in the U.S. are only marginally more likely to die at home or in hospice than other Americans, according to study results.“There have been considerable public health efforts aimed at ...

Advancing Documentation Infrastructure to Ensure Compliance with Federal HOPE Assessment Mandates and Reduce Clinician ...

In recent years, medical guidelines and national policies have pushed hospitals to offer more palliative care to patients who are seriously ill. This has led to a major rise in palliative care use, ...

Opinion: Medicare's fraud crackdown on those affiliated with hospices is a having a ripple affect on health care providers including doctors and nursing facilities.

Oregon lawmakers advanced a bill to strengthen hospice oversight to prevent fraud before it takes hold in the state.

A lifestyle medicine doctor shares her perspectives on the new dietary guidelines and how they affect people navigating ...

President Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which passed the House with almost unanimous Republican support on May 22, mandates $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. This is a cruel assault on some of the ...

Empath Health has tapped Jenna Paladino to serve as Vice President of Government Affairs, succeeding longtime government relations leader Scott Kistler, who is retiring after 28 years with the ...

When the 500th patient entered the Hospice House near Slidell last month, the milestone marked more than a number. It was a reminder of how many lives the nonprofit organization has touched by ...

A case-control study of Medicare data has found that older adults with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia who were newly prescribed benzodiazepines or antipsychotics in hospice care had ...

Objective The primary aim of this study was to assess the attitudes and practices of Chinese hospice physicians involved in palliative sedation, with an additional focus on exploring factors ...