Dr. Mehmet Oz pledged this week to lead an effort that would decertify any hospice providers that are found to be defrauding taxpayers by stealing the identities of people not in hospice or by overbilling for those who are dying.

Dr. Jauhar is a cardiologist in New York who writes frequently about medical care and public health. When my siblings and I decided to put our father in hospice care at his home in the spring of 2021, his Alzheimer's was near end-stage.