{"id":278403,"date":"2026-04-21T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:16:07","slug":"californias-delay-in-enacting-hospice-regulations-is-a-safety-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278403\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s delay in enacting hospice regulations is a safety failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: The Los Angeles Times reports that California still has not enacted the hospice regulations promised after past fraud scandals (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-17\/california-was-warned-of-shocking-hospice-fraud-inaction-allowed-problems-to-persist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCalifornia was warned of shocking hospice fraud. Inaction allowed scams to continue,\u201d<\/a> April 17).<\/p>\n<p>That delay is not a paperwork problem. It is a patient-safety failure. Hospice should mean comfort, dignity and trust, not a loophole for people who exploit Medicare and vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p>California does not need another investigation before acting. It needs the emergency rules finalized now, real enforcement and public reporting so fraud can be stopped before it reaches another bedside.<\/p>\n<p>Hanbin Yu, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>To the editor: With all the hand-wringing about this topic, I have yet to see any realistic suggestions about how to meaningfully monitor it so as to root out fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz scampered around, making allegations based on street addresses used by providers, acting as though we should see clinics at these locations. He\u2019s a doctor, so he should understand that the actual hospice care is primarily provided in patients\u2019 homes, not at outpatient facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the challenge; surely someone being paid a generous salary to administer these programs can come up with a more sophisticated approach to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Wolfson, Glendale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The Los Angeles Times reports that California still has not enacted the hospice regulations promised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,30472,10517,34119,2072,120107,111423,120103,63,15768,120105,120104,120108,52943,120106],"class_list":["post-278403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-comfort","tag-delay","tag-dignity","tag-editor","tag-hanbin-yu","tag-hospice-fraud","tag-hospice-regulation","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-medicare","tag-paperwork-problem","tag-patient-safety-failure","tag-real-enforcement","tag-trust","tag-vulnerable-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}