Hospice industry gets reprieve as Trump admin pauses oversight program

Hospice industry gets reprieve as Trump admin pauses oversight program 
Axios; by Maya Goldman; 3/13/25 
A federal effort to increase oversight of hospice care has been put on hold by the Trump administration, resetting efforts to root out fraud and abuse in an industry that receives more than $25 billion from Medicare annually. Why it matters: Federal officials in recent years have ramped up efforts to identify instances in which hospice operators fraudulently bill the government or enroll patients who aren't terminally ill. But the new administration last month halted a Biden-era plan for noncompliant hospices to take corrective action or risk being kicked out of Medicare. The big picture: Medicare is required by law to implement some version of the targeted oversight program. But it's not clear how that will evolve in President Trump's second term.