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Widespread fraud, kickbacks and other abuses in an industry meant to provide comforting care for the dying are the focus of reform proposals that call for a temporary halt to new licenses and a crackdown on patient-recruiting schemes in California’s booming hospice business.
A bill working its way through the state Senate would impose a one-year moratorium on new hospice licenses. A related measure in the Assembly would prohibit hospices from paying recruiters or other “referral sources” for new patients, an area that has been ripe for fraud.
Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) said his Senate Bill 664 is aimed at “the proliferation of shysters who are making tons of money off both public and private sources” at the expense of vulnerable patients. ....

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