{"id":615954,"date":"2026-04-30T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:49:08","slug":"hospice-of-humboldt-ceo-explains-how-to-differentiate-a-good-hospice-like-ours-from-those-exploiting-patients-and-taxpayers-via-billing-fraud-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615954\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice of Humboldt CEO Explains How to Differentiate a Good Hospice, Like Ours, From Those Exploiting Patients and Taxpayers via Billing Fraud | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hospice of Humboldt is located at 3327 Timber Fall Court in Eureka. | Submitted.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, the Outpost published a CalMatters story<\/a> about a recent wave of billing fraud, particularly in Southern California, in which fake or low-quality hospice operators are defrauding Medicare at the expense of both patients and taxpayers.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the local community is served by the highly regarded Hospice of Humboldt, which provides comprehensive end-of-life care, palliative care and bereavement services from its picturesque campus at 3327\u00a0Timber Fall Court in Eureka as well as out in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, employees of our local hospice have been fielding questions from the public, especially donors, about whether and how this fraud could impact Hospice of Humboldt. <\/p>\n

In a phone interview this morning,\u00a0 CEO Dianne Keating said the best tool to differentiate between a quality organization like Hospice of Humboldt and an exploitative or phony one is the Medicare Care Compare website<\/a>. Operated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the site allows patients, families and caregivers to search for and compare Medicare-certified healthcare providers, including hospices.<\/p>\n

\u201cHospice of Humboldt does an amazing job providing end-of-life care,\u201d Keating said. \u201cI mean, we have an amazing Hospice House, incredible palliative care program, and we do whatever it takes to meet patients and families where they are and serve them. But we don\u2019t want to get entangled in this southern LA County challenge, because we\u2019re nothing like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Jared Huffman also offered his appreciation and support for our region\u2019s hospice organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnd-of-life care is a deeply personal and important experience, and families deserve to know their loved ones are in good hands,\u201d Huffman said in a prepared statement. \u201cI\u2019m grateful the majority of hospice care centers in our region provide top-quality services for communities on the North Coast. I encourage constituents to use the federal government\u2019s website to confirm that your local provider is above board and applying the best care.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Medicare Care Compare site you can:<\/p>\n

Search local hospice providers by ZIP code or cityConfirm whether a hospice is medicare-certifiedCompare hospices side-by-sideReview\u00a0quality scores and performance dataSee family\/caregiver satisfaction results from surveysView contact information and service areas<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the link<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

Keating encouraged anyone with questions to contact Hospice of Humboldt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to answer any questions [and] give anybody a tour,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, if they come and see our facility and talk about our services, they\u2019ll understand that we put everything back into our mission, and we are a completely mission-driven organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hospice of Humboldt is located at 3327 Timber Fall Court in Eureka.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-615954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}