… This study included Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 years or older diagnosed with leukemia,
lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), or myeloproliferative neoplasm (…

… are thought to receive more aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care and have … End Results–Medicare
dataset to describe hospice use and indicators of aggressive EOL care among Medicare …

… files to determine enrollment in MA vs traditional Medicare in the last month of life. If an …
need switching from MA to traditional Medicare near end of life, we tested an expanded definition …

… We focused on NCI/NCCN centers … centers’ minority and white-specific end-of-life quality
metrics and to test whether minority-serving cancer centers had systematically lower end-of-life …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… end-of-life care vary by socioeconomic status and race. Medicare and Medicaid are key
players in end-of-life … All told, more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries die annually, …

… the concordance of preferences with end-of-life (EOL) care and is assumed to lead to less
intensive use of health care services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began …

… reporting may have had an impact on the number of patients without end-of-life claims in …
in our assessment of end-of-life expenditures. Furthermore, the SEER-Medicare-linked …

… Older adults at the end of life receive a high number of hours of help at the end of life, many
from more than one caregiver, which may shape hospice access. Better understanding of …