Ira Byock
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629 appearances
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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Some they they were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers.
And and I don't I didn't read it as damning of all for-profit uh providers, but it but um I think it was needed to happen.
I will say that, and and I want to get out there for any of our listeners that uh a few weeks later I published a an op-ed in STAT called Hospice Needs Saving, where I focused on a different and I think even more serious problem, which is variability in hospice care and the uh specific lapses that have happened progressively over the last 24
Five years in hospice care that um that we've all known about for a long time.
I don't want I don't want
Ava Kaufman's article to draw all our attention because the the issues that she brought out had been brought out before.
In fact, as we sit here, a a year ago in March 2022, the California Auditor's Office published a very uh excellent monograph of uh of hospice uh abuses of hospice care in California.
And I any
Anybody listening, please Google this.
California Auditors Hospice Licensure Report, March 2022.
It's a devastating report that should have had our whole industry, our whole field's hair on fire then.
And it's interesting we didn't talk about any of this.
Um until the ProPublica New Yorker article, which made it
impossible to deny, but we had been effectively denying it as a field for nine months or more.
Why do you think
Yeah.
Hospice care.
Uh I'm not against even publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice care.
I am passionately against bad care.
And there is a lot of bad hospice care that preys on v highly vulnerable patients and is unnecessary.
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