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. 2008 Feb;43(1 Pt 1):134–153. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00746.x

Table 2.

Average Unadjusted Total Expenditures (in $US) in the Last Month of Life and Their Breakdown into Medicare and Medicaid Expenditures for Nonhospice and Hospice Nursing Home Residents by Nursing Home Length-of-Stay and Diagnostic Category

Expenditure Group Hospice Nonhospice Unadjusted Difference Unadjusted Difference Relative to Nonhospice (%)
Long-stay NH residents
  Cancer (N = 223) Total 7,090 8,747 −1,657# −19
Medicare 4,355 5,990 −1,635
Medicaid 2,735 2,757 −22
  Dementia (N = 1,678) Total 6,768 6,328 440 7
Medicare 4,096 3,659 437
Medicaid 2,672 2,669 3
  Other (N = 1,971) Total 6,917 6,447 470# 7
Medicare 4,106 3,655 451
Medicaid 2,811 2,792 19
  All diagnoses (N = 3,872) Total 6,869 6,495 374# 6
Medicare 4,127 3,758 369
Medicaid 2,742 2,737 5
Short-stay NH residents
  Cancer (N = 233) Total 9,743 12,466 −2,723# −22
Medicare 7,843 10,936 −3,093#
Medicaid 1,900 1,530 370#
  Dementia (N = 791) Total 8,489 11,025 −2,536* −23
Medicare 6,088 9,071 −2,983*
Medicaid 2,401 1,954 447*
  Other (N = 659) Total 8,370 12,416 −4,046* −33
Medicare 6,311 10,689 −4,378*
Medicaid 2,059 1,727 332#
  All diagnoses (N = 1,683) Total 8,722 11,764 −3,042* −26
Medicare 6,543 9,953 −3,410*
Medicaid 2,179 1,811 368*
All NH residents Total 7,364 8,134 −770* −9
Medicare 4,774 5,685 −911*
Medicaid 2,591 2,449 142*
*

p-value<.001.

#

p-value<.05 (two-tail test of equality of means assuming unequal variance).