Episode 12 "What the Dying Deserve"

Every fabricated visit is a family that sat alone when someone was supposed to come. Twelve episodes have documented what went wrong in American hospice care. This is the episode that names what should have been there instead. In Episode 12, former hospice CEO Jim Holloman delivers the moral and clinical standards this system was built to meet, not in regulatory language but in human terms. What honest information looks like. What pain management actually requires. What continuity of care means to a family at three in the morning. What it means when the hospice you chose was a billing operation, and nobody came. WHAT YOU’LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE: • What the Medicare hospice benefit specifically promised every person who elects it • Seven things the dying deserve stated plainly, not in regulatory language • What fraud takes from families in human terms, not policy terms • The information families are owed and where it already exists • What a hospice that chooses transparency before any mandate requires it actually looks like • The question Episode 13 answers: who is building it? ─────────────────────────────────────────────── EPISODE CHAPTERS: 0:00 — Cold Open: A Death That Was Attended 1:55 — Segment 1: What Was Promised 3:45 — Segment 2: What the Dying Deserve 8:00 — Segment 3: What the Fraud Takes Away 10:00 — Segment 4: What Families Are Owed 12:15 — Segment 5: The Standard That Has to Exist 14:45 — Outro: Bridge to Episode 13 ─────────────────────────────────────────────── ABOUT THIS SERIES: Dying for Profits: Exposing the Business of Hospice Care is a 13-episode investigative podcast series from Hospice with Jim. Hosted by Jim Holloman, a former hospice Chaplain, Administrator, COO, and CEO with over 16 years of firsthand executive experience inside the industry. He is not reporting on this industry from the outside. He is documenting it from memory. Every claim is sourced. Every pattern is documented. This is not outrage. It is clarity. ─────────────────────────────────────────────── Website: https://www.hospicewithjim.com Story Tips & Contact: [email protected] If you work in hospice as a nurse, social worker, chaplain, or administrator, Jim wants to hear from you. The door is open. ─────────────────────────────────────────────── Sources: OIG, CMS, DOJ, MedPAC, JAMA, Health Affairs, HHS Multiagency Report, Hospice CARE Act, DOJ Operation Never Say Die (April 2026), and peer-reviewed literature. Full sourcing at hospicewithjim.com. #hospice #hospicecare #Medicare #hospicefraud #endoflife #palliativecare #healthcare #healthcarereform #privateequity #medicarefraud #dyingforprofits #hospicewithjim #investigativejournalism #eldercare #patientadvocacy #healthcarepolicy #hospicenurse #endoflifecare #seniorcare #medicarebenefits #healthcarecorruption #publichealth #hospiceeducation #caregiving