Hospice News June 3, 2020
Hospice utilization among Medicare beneficiaries is greater in assisted living facilities than many other settings, including private residences, according to new research published in Health Affairs.
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City indicated that this was the first national study to examine the types of residences where Medicare decedents resided. The study followed 8.349 decedents who passed away between 2002 and 2017 and found that 9.8% of patients enrolled in Medicare died in an assisted living facility, senior housing, retirement community or continuing care facility. Assisted living facilities saw the highest proportion of decedents at 30.4%, followed by retirement communities at 23.2%.
For the first time, data indicate that hospice utilization...
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