The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General recently announced plans to launch a new audit that will focus on general inpatient hospice services...

Several bills before the committee [Joint Committee on the Judiciary] would legalize some natural plants and fungi containing psychedelic compounds...

Locally, nationally and internationally recognized as a pioneer and expert in the hospice field, Elizabeth Ford Pitorak died last month after a long illness...

As the New York Assembly returns to Albany this week, one of the bills on their docket would prohibit new for-profit hospice centers in the state...

Medication costs are among hospice providers’ biggest expenses, and some are asking policymakers to take action on prices...

Increasingly, both policymakers and providers are seeing potential opportunities to reform the Medicare Hospice Benefit, including the prospect of concurrent care...

For many unhoused adults—who frequently lack a strong social safety net—long-term medical or hospice care are effectively inaccessible...

Researchers have for years reported that there are, indeed, substantial differences overall between for-profit and nonprofit hospices; a new study based on family caregivers’ experiences provides additional evidence...

A new JAMA Open Network study found that cancer patients in states with palliative care laws ... were more likely to die in the comfort of their home or in hospice care rather than a hospital bed...