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MA Beneficiaries More Likely than Fee-for-Service Patients to Enter Hospice from Community Setting

Hospice News

“We found that hospice enrollees in MA had substantially different hospice use patterns, with greater enrollment from community settings, compared with their counterparts in [traditional Medicare],” the authors wrote. million patients who elected hospice in the last 90 days of life during the years 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018.

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Hospice care in the United States

Americare Hospice

Hospice care in the United States is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. The concept of hospice as a place to treat the incurably ill has been evolving since the 11th century. In 2007, hospice treatment was used by 1.4