Medicare Advantage enrollment has almost doubled since 2010 and now accounts for more
than a third of all Medicare beneficiaries. We performed a systematic review to compare …

Context Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage (MA), now almost 30 years old, has
generally been viewed as a policy disappointment. Enrollment has vacillated but has never …

Importance End-of-life care costs are high and decedents often experience poor quality of
care. Numerous factors influence changes in site of death, health care transitions, and …

Objectives To determine to what extent demographic, social support, socioeconomic,
geographic, medical, and End‐of‐Life (EOL) planning factors explain racial and ethnic …

Hospice began as a social movement outside of mainstream medicine with the goal of
helping those dying alone and in unbearable pain in health care institutions. The National …

Importance Medicare Advantage (MA) has entailed a major expansion of government-
financed, privately administered health insurance in the US. As policy makers consider …

Abstract Background/Objective Medicare Advantage (MA) and Accountable Care
Organizations (ACOs) operate under incentives to reduce burdensome and costly care at …

To slow the growth of Medicare spending, some policy makers have advocated raising the
Medicare eligibility age from the current sixty-five years to sixty-seven years. For the majority …

Background More than three million Americans turn 65 each year and newly enroll in
Medicare, making this one of the most common insurance transitions. Non‐Medicare …

Introduction Medicare decedents with cancer often receive intensive care during the last
month of life; however, little information exists on longer end-of-life care trajectories …