This report presents information on Medicare's hospice benefit who is using it, how it is being used, what costs are associated with its use, what costs precede hospice enrollment and how these vary by type of enrollee.
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Advanced SearchMedicare Home Health Services 1989-1994: Patterns of Benefit Use Among Chronically Disabled Elders
Presentation given at the Gerontological Society of America presentation, November 1998. [26 PDF pages]
Feasibility of Matching Medicare and Medicaid Data for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries in Oregon
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare's Post-Acute Care Benefits: Background, Trends, and Issues to Be Faced
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The National Long-Term Care Surveys (1982, 1984, 1989)
The 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys (NLTCS) are household surveys of functionally impaired Medicare beneficiaries age 65+. The 1989 NTLCS is a resurveying of this population.
Recent Changes in Service Use Patterns of Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries
An analysis was made of the pre and post-patterns of Medicare Part A service use using the samples of the 1982 and 1984 National Long-Term Care Surveys linked to the Medicare Part A bill files and mortality reports.
Effects of Medicare's Hospital Prospective Payment System (PPS) on Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services