Understanding The Use Of Medicare Procedure Codes For Advance Care Planning: A National Qualitative Study: Study examines the use of Medicare procedure …

K Ladin, OC Bronzi, PK Gazarian, JM Perugini… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
In 2016 Medicare introduced advance care planning Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
codes to reimburse clinicians for time spent providing the service. Despite recent increases …

Paying for advance care planning in medicare: Impacts on care and spending near end of life

AJ Chen, J Li - Journal of Health Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Spending at end of life (EOL) accounts for a large and growing share of healthcare
expenditures in the US, and often reflects aggressive care with questionable value for dying …

How Should Cost-Informed Goals of Care Decisions Be Facilitated at Life's End?

J Li, RT Braun, S Kakarala… - AMA journal of ethics, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Interventions near patients' deaths in the United States are often expensive, burdensome,
and inconsistent with patients' goals and preferences. For patients and their loved ones to …