Health care costs associated with hospice use for people with dementia in the US

Health care costs associated with hospice use for people with dementia in the US
Health Affairs, by Melissa D Aldridge, Lauren J Hunt, Krista L Harrison, Karen McKendrick, Lihua Li, R Sean Morrison; 9/23
Policy makers in the US are increasingly concerned that greater use of the Medicare hospice benefit by people with dementia is driving up costs... 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 in the last three days ($2,200) or last three months ($7,200) of life, primarily through lower inpatient care costs in the last days of life...