To ensure that a reluctant medical community would embrace Medicareat its inception in 1965, Congress declared that any willingprovider could participate. Since that time, the vast majorityof physicians and hospitals have come to rely on Medicare asa major source of revenue. But as additional Medicare benefitshave been created, they have increasingly been provided by for-profitcompanies that find doing business with government, though sometimesfrustrating, a worthwhile commercial venture. Perhaps the mostuntraditional Medicare service offered by such organizationsis hospice care.
The hospice benefit was created in 1982 to offer terminallyill patients an . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Mr. Iglehart is a national correspondent for the Journal.
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