{"id":884,"date":"2015-10-03T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-10-04T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T18:20:54","slug":"10-faqs-medicares-role-in-end-of-life-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"10 FAQs: Medicare\u2019s Role in End-of-Life Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Family Foundation)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About three-quarters of the 2.5 million people who die during the year in the US are ages 65 and older, making Medicare the largest insurer of health care provided during the last year of life.<a id=\"endnote_link_153315-1\" class=\"footnote-link\" title=\"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, \u201cDeaths: Final Data for 2010,\u201d National Vital Statistics Report 2013;61(4), Table 3, http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr61\/nvsr61_04.pdf.\" href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/fact-sheet\/10-faqs-medicares-role-in-end-of-life-care\/?utm_campaign=KFF%3A+The+Latest&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=22544342&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_W3hwSi7IVvgGsIq8PWeIrrUGREXASq8KRvkbBJigNHEj59Hk3vodnJYOw3pBWIrNX3sRKqNuJ5ZdQFs-zegbcDFGgYA&amp;_hsmi=22544342#footnote-153315-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 In fact, roughly one-quarter of traditional Medicare spending for health care is for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life\u2014a proportion that has remained steady for decades.\u00a0 The high overall cost for health care received in the last year of life is not surprising given that many who die have multiple serious and complex conditions. <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/medicare\/fact-sheet\/10-faqs-medicares-role-in-end-of-life-care\/?utm_campaign=KFF%3A+The+Latest&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=22544342&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_W3hwSi7IVvgGsIq8PWeIrrUGREXASq8KRvkbBJigNHEj59Hk3vodnJYOw3pBWIrNX3sRKqNuJ5ZdQFs-zegbcDFGgYA&amp;_hsmi=22544342\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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; socialsecurityreport.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>(Source &#8211; Kaiser Family Foundation) About three-quarters of the 2.5 million people who die during the year in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}