… However, the results shown in Table 3, when compared to Table 4, show relatively little
effect on average Medicare payments of removing outliers, implying that people with very high …

… the share of Medicare payments going to end-of-life care, given … on payments for Medicare
services in the last year of life. … payments in the last year of life to comprise 26–30 percent of …

… Medicare’s FFS payment systems for end-of-life care vary by provider type (Exhibit 1 ). In an
… to control Medicare spending and provide greater incentives for efficiency, the Medicare FFS …

… end-of-life care system for Medicare beneficiaries remain. Implications: Further research on
how treatment decisions at the end of life … Medicare's payment systems and their attendant …

… ; and Medicare does this most … of Medicare payment and Medicare policy support a system
of care that is wholly inadequate to the needs of older patients, essentially the same Medicare …

… Using Medicare program data for 1976, 1980, 1985, and 1988, we classified Medicare
payments according to whether they were made for people in their last year of life (decedents) or …

… Medicare spending for people at the end of life … Medicare spending for people at the end
of life also decreased with age. Hospice use among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life …

… life is high cost; one analysis found that 25 percent of Medicare payments went to patients in
their last year of life … on the care of Medicare patients in their last year of life. Patients are not …

… payment for ACP under the recent Medicare policy (effective January 2016). Additionally,
this article will explore the impacts the payment … terminally ill Medicare beneficiaries receive …

… of end-of-life care, we analyzed Medicare claims data for 2000, 2005, and 2009 to document
places of care and health care transitions for Medicare decedents in the last months of life. …