Thursday, June 13, 2013

Los Angeles leads nation in Medicare spending on end-of-life care

Spending in the last two years of life was about $112,000 per patient in L.A., about 60% higher than the national average, a Dartmouth Atlas Project report shows.



More money was spent in the Los Angeles area on chronically ill patients in their final years than anywhere else in the United States, according to new data on Medicare patients released Wednesday.



via L.A. Times - Health http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/features/health/~3/xr83o_yTius/la-me-end-of-life-20130613,0,2832737.story

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