Report 2021-123 Recommendation Responses
Report 2021-123: California Hospice Licensure and Oversight: The State's Weak Oversight of Hospice Agencies Has Created Opportunities for Large-Scale Fraud and Abuse (Release Date: March 2022)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To help ensure that hospice owners and hospice management personnel are of good moral character, the Legislature should revise state law to require that each hospice agency's owners, and the hospice agency's administrator, director of patient care services, administrator/director of patient care services designee, and medical director (hospice
management personnel) submit electronic fingerprint images to DOJ for the furnishing of the person's criminal record to Public Health. The revision should also include a requirement that hospice owners and management personnel with certain criminal convictions, as determined by the Legislature, are prohibited from obtaining a license and are further prohibited from providing any hospice-related service before obtaining either a criminal record clearance or a criminal record exemption from Public Health.
Description of Legislative Action
The Legislature did not take action in the 2021-2022 Legislative Session to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2023