End-of-Life Hospital Spending For Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Health Conditions Varies Widely, Study Finds



Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

There is wide variation among the U.S.’s top academic medical centers in spending on care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions during the last two years of their lives, according to the 2008 edition of The Dartmouth Atlas of health care, the New York Times reports.

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