Medicare Program Expenditures Associated with Hospice Use

Keyphrases

• Medicare 100%
• Hospice 100%
• Hospice Use 100%
• Last Year of Life 30%
• Adjusted Means 20%
• Medicare Spending 20%
• Decedents 20%
• Lung Cancer 10%
• Linear Regression 10%
• Organ System 10%
• Age-specific 10%
• Medicaid 10%
• Non-cancer 10%
• Patients with Dementia 10%
• Urban Setting 10%
• Comorbid Conditions 10%
• Nursing Homes 10%
• Patients with Cancer 10%
• Chronic Heart Failure 10%
• Retrospective Cohort 10%
• Hospice Care 10%
• Cancer Types 10%
• Lung-other 10%
• Medicare Enrollees 10%
• Cost Effect 10%
• Duration of Illness 10%
• Service Type 10%
• Low Use 10%
• Relative Cost 10%
• Condition-dependent 10%
• Payment Source 10%
• Hospice Enrollment 10%
• Year of Death 10%
• Medicare Fee-for-service Beneficiaries 10%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Medicare 100%
• Malignant Neoplasm 87%
• Health Care Cost 37%
• Disease 12%
• Heart Failure 12%
• Organ Systems 12%
• Lung Cancer 12%
• Linear Regression Analysis 12%
• Nursing Home 12%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Medicare 100%
• Malignant Neoplasm 87%
• Disease 12%
• Nursing Home 12%
• Heart Failure 12%
• Linear Regression Analysis 12%
• Lung Cancer 12%
• Hospice Care 12%