Chemed: VITAS Enrolling Actively Dying Hospital Patients Who May Not Need or Benefit from Hospice in Order to Skirt Medicare Cap Limits; In Some Cases, Employees Say Deceased Patients Were Admitted and Billed to Medicare

VITAS Healthcare, the largest hospice provider in the nation and a subsidiary of Chemed (CHE), has been seeking out and enrolling hospital patients that are close to death to skirt Medicare payment limits, according to an investigation by The Capitol Forum. In some cases, the patients would not benefit from hospice services and families were […]