… End‐of‐life costs during the final 4 months of life were about $10,000 higher for Medicaid …
of care and use inpatient services more intensely than do Medicaid patients without cancer. …

… end of life, it is important to understand their patterns of both Medicare and Medicaid services,
… In this article, we describe Medicare and Medicaid service use and costs of dually eligible …

… state Medicaid program, we identified 705 Medicaid patients … continuously enrolled in Medicaid
in the last 60 days of life. We … of service codes previously developed for use in New York …

… for Medicare and Medicaid Services from data … Services file, provide detail data on services,
payment, and diagnoses. MAX files only include fee-for-service (FFS) data; thus, services …

… We also hypothesize that the patterns in Medicaid expenditures by category of service in
terminally ill patients are associated with the patient's demographics and cancer type. …

… Medicaid beneficiaries are more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage cancer and have …
in the Medicaid population. Existing data suggest EOL service utilization within the Medicaid …

… On the other hand, a study of more than 245,000 Medicare fee-for-service enrollees at
the end of life found that, although hospice was associated with 1% lower average Medicare …

… Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid data to examine children and family characteristics
associated with end-of-life … as Hispanic ethnicity from the Medicaid claims payment data. Children …

… that many of the services used by patients at the end of life, such as … Medicaid (which covers
a large proportion of nursing home care for elderly persons) expenditures at the end of life …

… and Medicaid Services. Medicare files include claims for hospice use, inpatient and outpatient
care, and physician billing. Medicare claims were available through December 31, 2001. …