… for end of life care may be unavoidable. For example, the high Medicare costs of individuals
at the end of life … Most of the research on end of life care has focused on Medicare-financed …

… In conclusion, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2011 experienced
four or more transitions in health care within the last 6 months of life. Many of them transitioned …

… However, such disenrollment complicates the comparison of end-of-life outcomes between
traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage enrollees, and it is unclear how disenrollment …

… of end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries. However, critical gaps in our knowledge about
how to design a better end-of-life care system for Medicare … at the end of life are made and …

… hospital days and Medicare spending during the last 6 months of life using hospice versus
… , were enrolled in fee for service Medicare throughout the last 2 years of life, and were in at …

… care planning (ACP) discussions with Medicare patients. The objective of the study was to
examine the association of CMS-billed ACP visits with end-of-life (EOL) healthcare utilization. …

… was in end-of-life Medicare spending … Medicare during the last 6 months of life. We used
data on deaths through 2007, which were the most recently available data linked to Medicare …

… , and End Results (SEER) tumor registry and linked Medicare claims data to examine hospice
utilization and aggressiveness of care among pancreatic cancer patients at the end of life. …

… I think they raise important questions for the field and what it means to be relied upon at
the end of life. The main finding of the study is that for Medicare patients who had 6 months or …

… care at the end of life differs between Medicare and fee… end of life according to diagnosis
alone is problematic, because there is no denominator for comparison. Finally, SEER-Medicare …