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Medicare Expenditures and Health Care Utilization in a Multiethnic Community-based Population With Dementia From Incidence to Death.


ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:While individuals live with dementia for many years, utilization and expenditures from disease onset through the end-of-life period have not been examined in ethnically diverse samples. METHODS:We used a multiethnic, population-based, prospective study of cognitive aging (Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project) linked to Medicare claims to examine total Medicare expenditures and health care utilization among individuals with clinically diagnosed incident dementia from disease onset to death. RESULTS:High-intensity treatment (hospitalizations, life-sustaining procedures) was common and mean Medicare expenditures per year after diagnosis was $69,000. Non-Hispanic blacks exhibited higher spending relative to Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites 1 year after diagnosis. Non-Hispanic blacks had higher total (mean=$205,000) Medicare expenditures from diagnosis to death compared with non-Hispanic whites (mean=$118,000). Hispanics' total expenditures and utilization after diagnosis was similar to non-Hispanic whites despite living longer with dementia. DISCUSSION:Health care spending for patients with dementia after diagnosis through the end-of-life is high and varies by ethnicity.

SUBMITTER: Ornstein KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215747 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Medicare Expenditures and Health Care Utilization in a Multiethnic Community-based Population With Dementia From Incidence to Death.

Ornstein Katherine A KA   Zhu Carolyn W CW   Bollens-Lund Evan E   Aldridge Melissa D MD   Andrews Howard H   Schupf Nicole N   Stern Yaakov Y  

Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 20181001 4


<h4>Introduction</h4>While individuals live with dementia for many years, utilization and expenditures from disease onset through the end-of-life period have not been examined in ethnically diverse samples.<h4>Methods</h4>We used a multiethnic, population-based, prospective study of cognitive aging (Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project) linked to Medicare claims to examine total Medicare expenditures and health care utilization among individuals with clinically diagnosed incident dem  ...[more]

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