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Mehmet Oz: “If you're put into hospice, you actually give up the rest of…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Like, nobody dies and that happens? Doesn't sound like hospice. Doesn't sound like hospice. Doctors are being paid to send people inappropriately to hospice. Now that's a problem, Jan, because If you're put into hospice, you actually give up the rest of your healthcare protection. You no longer get traditional Medicare benefits because you're in hospice. You're dying. So we're not going to pay all these extra expenses for things that aren't going to benefit you because you've decided to pull back voluntarily. (23:12–23:18)

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Asserts that entering hospice care results in the loss of traditional Medicare benefits.

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