Saving money isn’t really the point of hospice care. Helping dying patients have the best possible remaining life, followed by a good death, is really the purpose. But whether hospice care saves money has prompted debate for years. Ziad Obermeyer, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
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