‘Hospice care is specifically for care in a person’s last weeks or months of life, sometimes six months or less. A tip off to investigators was finding patients who were enrolled in hospice care for multiple years, according to a DOJ spokesperson. The defendants allegedly transferred several patients between the three companies after six months to continually bill for services.’
Scathing Online Schoolmarm hastens to correct between, which should be among, since the writer is describing an action involving more than two people or things. But having done that, she will proceed to delectate the ghost hospice fraud story.
Spiritual Touch, ghost hospice — the language here is fantastic, as is the desperate problem of where to stash the pretend-dying to maintain payouts.
It’s like they’ve created a new mysterious Blue Zone, where, for reasons unknown, a group of 120 year olds keep on keepin on. Sardinia, Okinawa, Monterey Park Los Angeles County.
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It brings to mind Donne’s magnificent sonnet:
Death, Be Not Allowed
BY JOHN DONNE
Death, be not allowed, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, long as they can pay me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; yet from thee no bucks do flow,
And so our almost-dead with thee don’t go.
Transfer their old bones; then, check’s delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And bogus death, O Death, doth pay us well
With dollars better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One fake hospice transfer past, we’re paid eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.