Has hospice use changed? 2000-2010 utilization patterns

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-101

  Aldridge, Melissa D ^a,b   Canavan, Maureen ^c   Cherlin, Emily ^c   Bradley, Elizabeth H ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health Services Research; Hospice; Medicare Hospice Benefit

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; RACE; SYMPTOM; VERY ELDERLY; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919344246     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000256     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. NHPCO Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America. Available at: http://www.nhpco.org/sites/default/files/public/Statistics-Research/2013-Facts-Figures.pdf 2013. Accessed November 10, 2013.
2. Teno JM, Gozalo PL, Bynum JP, et al. Change in end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries: site of death, place of care, and health care transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009. JAMA. 2013;309:470-477.
3. Carlson MD, Herrin J, Du Q, et al. Hospice characteristics and the disenrollment of patients with cancer. Health Serv Res. 2009;44:2004-2021.
4. Miller SC, Weitzen S, Kinzbrunner B. Factors associated with the high prevalence of short hospice stays. J Palliat Med. 2003;6:725-736.
5. MedPac. Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy: Chapter 12: Hospice Services. 2013:261-284.
6. Bradley EH, Prigerson H, Carlson MD, et al. Depression among surviving caregivers: does length of hospice enrollment matter? Am J Psychiatry. 2004;161:2257-2262.
7. Kris AE, Cherlin EJ, Prigerson H, et al. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month followup study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006;14:264-269.
8. Rickerson E, Harrold J, Kapo J, et al. Timing of hospice referral and families perceptions of services: are earlier hospice referrals better? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005;53:819-823.
9. Miller SC, Mor V, Teno J. Hospice enrollment and pain assessment and management in nursing homes. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2003;26:791-799.
10. Medicare Care Choices Model. 2014. Available at: http://innovation. cms.gov/initiatives/Medicare-Care-Choices/. Accessed April 10, 2014.
11. Aldridge MD, Schlesinger M, Barry CL, et al. National hospice survey results: for-profit status, community engagement, and service. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;174:500-506.
12. Carlson MD, Herrin J, Du Q, et al. Impact of hospice disenrollment on health care use and medicare expenditures for patients with cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2010;28:4371-4375.
13. Casarett DJ, Marenberg ME, Karlawish JH. Predictors of withdrawal from hospice. J Palliat Med. 2001;4:491-497.
14. Taylor DH, Steinhauser K, Tulsky JA, et al. Characterizing hospice discharge patterns in a nationally representative sample of the elderly, 1993-2000. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2008;25:9-15.
15. Teno JM, Plotzke M, Gozalo P, et al. A national study of live discharges from hospice. J Palliat Med. 2014;17:1121-1127.
16. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Wonder: About Underlying Cause of Death, 1999-2010. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2013.
17. Liang KY, Zeger SL. Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models. Biometrika. 1986;73:13-22.
18. Thompson JW, Carlson MD, Bradley EH. US hospice industry experienced considerable turbulence from changes in ownership, growth, and shift to forprofit status. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012;31:1286-1293.
19. Center to Advance Palliative Care and the National Palliative Care Research Center. Americas Care of Serious Illness: A State-by-State Report Card on Access to Palliative Care in Our Nations Hospitals. New York; 2008. Available at: www.capc.org/reportcard/findings. Accessed October 10, 2013.
20. Center forMedicare &Medicaid Services. 42 CFR Part 418 FY 2014 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate. 2013. Available at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-08-07/pdf/2013-18838.pdf. Accessed July 10, 2014.
21. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Chronic Conditions among Medicare Beneficiaries, Chartbook. 2012 Edition, Baltimore, MD; 2012. U.S. Department of Health and Human Sevices Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary.
22. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Report to the Congress: Reforming the Delivery System, Chapter 8. Washington, DC: Evaluating Medicares Hospice Benefit; 2008.
23. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Report to the Congress: Medicares Payment Policy. Washington, DC: Reforming Medicares Hospice Benefit; 2009.
24. Casarett D, Van Ness PH, OLeary JR, et al. Are patient preferences for life-sustaining treatment really a barrier to hospice enrollment for older adults with serious illness? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006;54:472-478.
25. Fried TR, Bradley EH, OLeary J. Changes in prognostic awareness among seriously ill older persons and their caregivers. J Palliat Med. 2006;9:61-69.
26. Murtagh FE, Preston M, Higginson I. Patterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease. Clin Med. 2004;4:39-44.
27. Bradley EH, Fried TR, Kasl SV, et al. Quality-of-life trajectories in the end of life. In: Lawton MP, ed. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company Inc.; 2001:64-96.
28. Aldridge Carlson MD, Barry CL, Cherlin EJ, et al. Hospices enrollment policies may contribute to underuse of hospice care in the United States. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012;31:2690-2698.
29. Kelley AS, Deb P, Du Q, et al. Hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality across a number of different lengths-of-stay. Health Aff (Millwood). 2013;32:552-561.