New Report Outlines Progress Made and Issues Call to Action ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A call to action in the form of a new report, Private Conversations and Public Discourse: The Importance of Consumer Engagement in End-of-Life Care, stresses the importance of the American public openly discussing care at the end of life.

NHPCO releases data showing devastating impact of cuts ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An independent study focusing on the projected margins of the hospice community found that, as a result of two recent cuts to Medicare reimbursement, the first regulatory and the second statutory, the overall median Medicare profit margin for the hospice community could decrease from 2 percent in 2008 to -14 percent by 2019.