Hospice News February 27, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are more likely to enroll in hospice from a community setting than patients in traditional fee-for-service programs.
More than 46% of MA beneficiaries who enrolled in hospice in 2018 did so while in their homes (rather than a hospital or nursing facility), compared to 38% who were covered by traditional Medicare, a study published in JAMA Health Forum found.
“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. “While we found that hospice length of stay was longer for those enrolling from the community vs hospital or nursing home settings, we overall found that hospice...
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