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Site of Death, Place of Care, Health Care Transitions in US Medicare - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Site of Death, Place of Care, Health Care Transitions in US Medicare - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Site of Death, Place of Care, Health Care Transitions in US Medicare Beneficiaries, 2000-2015 Joan M Teno, M.D., M.S. Pedro Gozalo, Ph.D. Amal N Trivedi, MD, MPH Jen Bunker, MPH Julie Lima, Ph.D. , MPH Jessica Ogarek, MS Vincent Mor, Ph.D.
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Impact of Late Transitions
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No LT Non-Institution LT Institution-Institution LT 95% CI
Figure 1. Respondent Reports of Quality of Care by Whether Decedent Had No Late Transition, Any Late Transition or an Institution-to-Institution Late Transition
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Research Question
- Important changes since 2009
– Continued growth of hospice – Expansion of community-based palliative care teams – 30-day readmission penalty – ACA debate started March 2009
- What was the pattern in site of death,
places of care, health care transitions, and burdensome care that occurred between 2000 and 2015?
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Methods
- Sample of 20% Fee-For-Service (FFS)
Medicare Beneficiaries and Medicare Advantage (MA)
– Age 66 and older – Years studied 2000 and 2015 for FFS – For MA, 2011 and 2015 – 95% CI
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Results – Sample Description
Characteristic Fee-For-Service N= 1,361,870
- Avg. Age
82.8 Gender (%F) 58.7 Race (% Black) 8.0
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20 40 60 Proportion of FFS Decedents 2000 2005 2010 2015
year
Hospice <= 3 d Hospice at time of death ICU in the Last 30 d of life Hospitalization in last 30 d NH Stay in the last 90 d of life
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Potentially Burdensome Transitions
Potentially Burdensome Transition
2009 2011 2015
NH to Hospital or Hospital to NH 0.58 per decedent 0.36 per decedent 0.33 per decedent Transition in the last 3 days of life (%) 14.2 11.2 10.8 Multiple hosp. for infections (%) 16.7 11.7 12.2 >=3 Hosp last 90 days (%) 11.5 6.9 7.1
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MA vs. FFS 2015
50.4 29 11.2 53.9 52.6 27.4 9.4 44.6
10 20 30 40 50 60
Hospice ICU Last 30d Transition in last 3 days
- Hosp. Last 30 days
FFS MA
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Limitations
- Secondary analyses of administrative data – we
don’t have information on patient preferences.
- Home or community may be a private home, board
and care home or personal care home, or an assisted living facility (ALF). Only Hospice can distinguish ALF with place of service code.
- MedPAR MA billing data is information only and not
available for critical access hospitals and hospitals that serve only MA patients.
- Multiple policy and other interventions – difficult to
disentangle cause and effect.
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Conclusion
- Among Fee-For-Service Medicare
beneficiaries who died in 2015 compared with 2000, fewer died in an acute care hospital or experienced potentially burdensome transitions, but there was little change in rates of ICU use in the last month of life.
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