DEATH AND DYING

Articles and editorials

National Hospice Study Data Should Not Be Used To Set Prospective Rates, 34646 [18NO]

New Try for Truth-in-Funerals, 6688 [22MR]

U.S. Act To Cut Benefit To Dying in Hospice Care, 10874 [3MY]

Bills and resolutions

Hospice care: medicare reimbursement (see S. Res. 285)

Letters

Funeral industry practices, resident of Niantic, Conn., 6688 [22MR]

Hospice care for terminally ill elderly: David S. Greer, Brown University, 34646 [18NO]

Hospice care reimbursement: David S. Greer (excerpt), 34591 [18NO]

———National Hospice Organization, 33843 [17NO]

Remarks in House

FTC funeral industry rule: disapprove (H. Con. Res. 70), 6688 [22MR]

Hospice care: funding, 10874 [3MY]

Medicare: hospice coverage, 30270 [1NO], 32455 [14NO]

Sec. of Health and Human Services: timely notification by funeral homes (H.R. 1733), 3468 [1MR]

Social security: reduce incidents of payments to deceased individuals, 20417 [21JY]

———repeal limitations on certain death benefits (H.R. 1064), 1089 [27JA]

Remarks in Senate

Hospice care: reimbursement (S. Res. 285), 33843 [17NO], 34644 [18NO]

Medicare: hospice care reimbursement, 34591 [18NO]

———hospice care reimbursement (S. 1592), 19676 [18JY]

Medicare Hospice Reimbursement Act: enact (H.R. 3677), 22591, 22861 [4AU]

Texts of

H.R. 1064, repeal limitations on certain social security death benefits, 1091 [27JA]

H.R. 1733, timely notification of deaths by funeral homes, 3468 [1MR], 20417 [21JY]

S. Res. 285, reimbursement for hospice care, 33843 [17NO], 34591 [18NO]