Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Medicare more beneficiaries use hospice but for fewer days of care : report to congressional requesters.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428972099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Medicare
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospice care
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Medicare
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289000820
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Medicare
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985257627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
HEHS-00-182 Medicare: More Beneficiaries Use Hospice but for Fewer Days of Care
Report to the Congress
Author: Medicare
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289000851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed issues related to the use of Medicare's hospice benefit, focusing on: (1) the patterns and trends in hospice use by Medicare beneficiaries; (2) factors that affect the use of the hospice benefit; and (3) the availability of hospice providers. GAO noted that: (1) the number of Medicare beneficiaries choosing hospice services has grown substantially during the past decade--nearly 360,000 beneficiaries enrolled in 1998, more than twice the number that elected hospice in 1992; (2) cancer patients account for more than half of Medicare hospice users, but the most dramatic growth in use is among persons with other terminal conditions, such as heart disease, lung disease, stroke, or Alzheimer's disease; (3) although more beneficiaries are choosing hospice, many are doing so closer to the time of death; (4) half of Medicare hospice users are enrolled for 19 or fewer days, and service periods of 1 week or less are common; (5) many factors influence decisions about whether and when to begin hospice services, including physician practices, patient preferences and circumstances, and general awareness of the benefit among professionals and the public; (6) along with these factors, federal oversight of compliance with Medicare eligibility requirements may also have affected hospice use; (7) growth in the number of Medicare hospice providers in both urban and rural areas and in almost every state suggests that hospice services are more widely available to program beneficiaries than in the past; (8) at the same time, hospice officials report increased cost pressures from shorter patient enrollment periods and the use of more expensive forms of palliative care; (9) because data on provider costs are not available, however, the effect of these factors on the overall financial condition of hospice providers is uncertain; and (10) the Health Care Financing Administration is beginning to gather information from hospice providers about their costs, which should allow the adequacy of Medicare hospice payment rates to be evaluated in the relatively near future.
Trends and Variation in End-of-life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Chronically ill Medicare patients spent fewer days in the hospital and received more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003, but there was an increase in the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized, according to a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report. This report updates previous findings regarding variations in end-of-life care and documents trends from 2003 to 2007 in the use of medical resources to treat Medicare patients at the end of life.
Low-income Medicare Beneficiaries
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elderly poor
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
VA Health Care
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Author: