Medicare and End-of-Life Care in California
This infographic provides a snapshot of Medicare and end-of-life care in California.
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: September 2015
FeatureAs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services prepares to finalize a plan to pay physicians for discussing end-of-life treatment options with Medicare patients, this month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that about 8 in 10 of the public favors Medicare and private insurance covering such discussions and about 9 in 10 say doctors should have these discussions with their patients. However, relatively few (17 percent) say they’ve had such discussions with a doctor or other…
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What “Death Panels” Can Teach Us About Health Misinformation
From Drew AltmanIn his latest column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman discusses the difficulties of navigating the misinformation minefield, including the ways in which the news media can amplify or confront misinformation.
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Medicare Spending Peaks at Age 96
News ReleaseIn his latest column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank, Drew Altman discusses the implications of a Kaiser finding: per capita Medicare spending peaks at age 96, and the main reason is not end-of-life care. All previous columns by Drew Altman are available online.
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Medicare and End-of-Life Care
FeatureMedicare and End-of-Life Care_JAMA 110116 Download View the JAMA Infographic
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Visualizing Health Policy: Medicare and End-of-Life Care
News ReleaseThis Visualizing Health Policy infographic, produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), provides a snapshot of Medicare and end-of-life care
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10 FAQs: Medicare’s Role in End-of-Life Care
Fact SheetAbout eight of 10 of the 2.6 million people who died in the US in 2014 were people on Medicare, making Medicare the largest insurer of health care provided during the last year of life. These Frequently Asked Questions explain Medicare’s role in or coverage of end-of-life care, advance care planning, advance directives, and hospice care. They also provide information on Medicare spending on end-of-life care, changes to the physician fee schedule, and how related issues arose…
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Analysis Finds End-of-Life Medicare Spending Declines With Age Among Seniors
News ReleaseAmong beneficiaries who died in 2014, Medicare spent significantly more per person on medical services for seniors in their late sixties and early seventies than on older beneficiaries, according to a new data note from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The analysis comes at a time when physicians can now be reimbursed by Medicare for end-of-life care discussions with their patients. The analysis of Medicare claims data through 2014 finds that among those who died in…
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New Report on the “Rising Cost of Living Longer” Details Medicare Spending by Age
News ReleaseA new report, The Rising Cost of Living Longer: Analysis of Medicare Spending by Age for Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare, from the Kaiser Family Foundation takes a detailed look at per person Medicare spending by age and by service among the nearly 30 million people covered by traditional Medicare in 2011
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Visualizing Health Policy: Medicare and End-of-Life Care
Other PostThis Visualizing Health Policy infographic, produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), provides a snapshot of Medicare and end-of-life care.