patients understand the consequences of going into hospice. when you deny care that is lifesaving, that i mean basically took away life. reporter: hospice care is appropriate in many cases and is being used more and more, but the growth rate of hospice transfers at hca facilities is roughly double the national average. were you aware that the compensation that the head of hca receives, sam hazen, is tied to keeping the death rates low in his hospitals? wow, no. i had no idea. reporter: hca is the only one of the four largest for-profit publicly traded hospital chains that uses mortality rates as a factor in executive compensation. hca s ceo made $35.3 million over two years, more than $300,000 of it because of lower mortality rates. if you could talk to sam hazen, what would
staff were pressed to get patients into hospice where lifesaving treatments are withdrawn and the incentive is not necessarily patient care but the improvement of hospital performance metrics, this according to six nurses and 27 doctors who practice at 16 hca facilities in seven states and who spoke to nbc news. because if a patient dies in hospice even in the same hospital bed, their death will not be counted in the hospital s mortality statistics, a key factor used by those who rate hospital quality. and the better the rate is, the better for business. i m not afraid of speaking up in what i believe. reporter: dr. desanta bell practices at an hca hospital in california. he was the only physician of the 27 doctors we talked to who agreed to go on camera. dr. dabell says hca is kunsitantly pushing doctors to reduce the time they keep patients in the hospital and threaten to punish those like him who don t conform
names and phone numbers of assets and corporate cia employees as well as the addresses of ca facilities. with assets compromise, the u.s. may be partially blind. u.s. authorities are concerned with china s increasing influence in the u.s. a november report found that chinese state media is not required to register as foreign agents even though many representatives are suspected spies. wall street journal reported u.s. counterintelligence over children warned white house advisors ivanka trump and husband jared kushner to steer clear of their friend, the ex-wife of rupert murdoch. she was a sponsor of a garden at washington s national arboretum, a perfect perch for electronic surveillance of the capital. it means you are able to vacuum up conversations, electronic emissions. we reached out to wendy