Medicare Beneficiaries’ Costs Of Care In The Last Year Of Life
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- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 20 (4), 188-195
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.20.4.188
Abstract
This paper profiles Medicare beneficiaries’ costs for care in the last year of life. About one-quarter of Medicare outlays are for the last year of life, unchanged from twenty years ago. Costs reflect care for multiple severe illnesses typically present near death. Thirty-eight percent of beneficiaries have some nursing home stay in the year of their death; hospice is now used by half of Medicare cancer decedents and 19 percent of Medicare decedents overall. African Americans have much higher end-of-life costs than others have, an unexpected finding in light of their generally lower health care spending.Keywords
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