Hospice Educators Affirming Life Project

01/17/2026

California is among four states flagged as hospice fraud hotbeds in recent years, joined by Arizona, California and Texas. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has also recently added Georgia and Ohio as areas seeing heightened instances of fraud, waste and abuse among newly licensed hospices.

Six republican U.S. House of Representatives congressmen have penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of

06/14/2023

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is prioritizing hospice as the agency cracks down on health care fraud. Increased reimbursement oversight could be on

11/22/2022

We at the HEAL Project are happy to say that we are celebrating 25 years as a 501c3 nonprofit serving communities across the country. Help us to have another, even more successful, 25 years by contributing a tax-deductible donation here: https://square.link/u/F5mTHZYA

We are the creators of the Hospice Volunteer Association (hospicevolunteerassociation.org) in 2004 - recruiting, supporting and educating nearly 10,000 volunteers; the Hospice Community Forum (https://hospicevolunteerassociation.ning.com) a community open to and educating the public, which has nearly 2,000 members; Hannah's Friends (hannahsfriends.org) which is a unique community volunteer program to support families with dying children; and of course the HEAL Project Community Outreach Program in Education (COPE) - see our latest release of the entire COPE Series on Substack (healproject.substack.com)

10/14/2022