{"id":4893,"date":"2016-10-30T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2016-10-30T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T14:30:59","slug":"medicares-spending-for-hospice-care-shows-major-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4893","title":{"rendered":"Medicare&#8217;s Spending for Hospice Care Shows Major Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2007, spending by Medicare for Hospice care has increased substantially, according to a Health Affairs study. In a post on\u00a0www.ajmc.com,\u00a0The American Journal of Managed Care&#8217;s\u00a0Jackie Syrop takes a look at what&#8217;s driving this increase. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/newsroom\/medicare-spending-on-hospice-spending-up-per-patient-costs-flat\" target=\"_blank\">Read her analysis here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2007, spending by Medicare for Hospice care has increased substantially, according to a Health Affairs study. In a post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}