Background End-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer is costly. The palliative care
unit tend to reduce the healthcare costs of these patients. This study aimed to compare …

Background: Previous costing and resource estimates for cancer have not been complete
owing to lack of comprehensive data on cancer-related medication and radiation treatment …

Objectives To quantify end‐of‐life (EOL) medical costs for adult Medicaid beneficiaries
diagnosed with cancer. Data Sources We linked Medicaid administrative data with 2000 …

In February 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new
alternative payment model that would focus on the care of Medicare beneficiaries …

Abstract Background The American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and North American Association of Central Cancer …

Objectives To examine contemporary trends in end-of-life cancer care and geographic
variation of end-of-life care aggressiveness among Medicare beneficiaries. Materials and …

BACKGROUND Medicare Part D was designed to reduce out‐of‐pocket (OOP) costs for
Medicare beneficiaries, but to the authors' knowledge the extent to which this occurred for …

Cancer creates a tremendous financial burden. Cancer‐related costs are categorized into
direct, indirect, and psychosocial costs. Although there have been many reports on medical …

This article describes research related to the design of a payment model for specialty
oncology services for possible testing by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at …

Emergency care utilization and the Medicare hospice benefit for patients with poor-prognosis
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