{"id":4909,"date":"2016-11-01T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:26:56","slug":"end-of-life-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"End-of-Life Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the 2014, the United States total deaths were 2.6 million and 2.1 million were among Medicare beneficiaries; however, the cost of end-of-life care decreased from 18.6 percent to 13.5 percent. <a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2576570?utm_campaign=KFF-2016-November-JAMA-Medicare-End-of-Life&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=36824591&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9i9VDCZ5kwdB87M9V8hfyGNEaoECy2NKBJQY_W58kW-l2bui1kRTUxl4eLmsYOYk2WWNjIUMbn8ek20u5vVAqt33ETNQ&amp;_hsmi=36824591\" target=\"_blank\">Read report here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\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>In the 2014, the United States total deaths were 2.6 million and 2.1 million were among Medicare beneficiaries; however, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}