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The costs of decedents in the medicare program: implications for payments to medicare+choice plans
(Wiley Blackwell, 2004)
Objective. To discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid (through selective enrollment or disenrollment) people who are at risk for very high costs, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries ...
Trends in inpatient treatment intensity among medicare beneficiaries at the end of life
(Wiley Blackwell, 2004)
Objective. Although an increasing fraction of Medicare beneficiaries die outside the hospital, the proportion of total Medicare expenditures attributable to care in the last year of life has not dropped. We sought to ...