… Almost half of Medicare beneficiaries use hospice at the end of life. Hospice care can
improve patient and family outcomes through greater attention to emotional and psychological …

… end-of-life care explain geographic variation in end-of-life care expenditures among cancer
decedents. Methods: Using the SEER-Medicare … Measures of intensive end-of-life care …

… of supportive and palliative care services at the end of life, the findings might not generalize
… patients be enrolled in traditional Medicare rather than Medicare Advantage. The qualitative …

… We additionally identified academic medical centers that were designated as NCI cancer
centers.31 Practice volume was defined as the total number of Medicare beneficiaries that the …

… We hypothesized that quality of end-of-life care is significantly poorer among colorectal
cancer patients residing in rural communities than among those in urban communities, after …

… in patients near the end of life. This study found that one third of Medicare beneficiaries
who died of cancer received chemotherapy in their last 6 months of life with essentially no …

… We used a previously derived Medicare spending measure, the End-of-Life Expenditure …
to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries age 65 and older during their last 6 months of life, …

… The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is testing several care models that we …
approach to provision of end-of-life care for this population. The Medicare Care Choices Model …

… of Medicare claims data among older Medicare beneficiaries who died between 2016 and
2018. The study included Medicare … with a life-limiting condition (cancer, dementia, end-stage …

… in Medicare Parts A and B, those with fee-for-service Medicare … health care utilization at the
end of life, we restricted this … been done by others evaluating end-of-life health care use. For …