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).