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Hospice Reduces Medicare Costs, Even For Dementia Patients, Study Says

Published on Fri Sep 15, 2023

Plus: Two more recent studies address health equity issues. Law- and policymakers need to take a look at the big picture before hollowing out the hospice benefit. So suggests a new study published in Health Affairs. “For community-dwelling people with dementia, Medicare costs were lower for those who used hospice than for those who did not, whether hospice enrollment was [...]
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