Figure1.

Comparison of mean spending by month in the last 6 months of life between lung cancer patients that used hospice versus those that did not use hospice

Notes:

^a Unadjusted spending by month for the unmatched sample.

^b Using the matched sample, spending was adjusted for patient and market characteristics for each monthly measure using GLM model with log link and gamma distribution. Standard errors accounted for clustering within a ZIP. Value are predicted values among hospice users and non-users after setting all the other covariates to their mean values; Hospice users; Hospice non-users;