Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Care And Insurance Seem To Align in End-Of-Life Dementia Care

Insurance Type To Dying Dementia Patients' Care by Andrew M. Seaman.  Reuters Health.  September 24, 2013.

(1)  Fee-for-service insurance payment, for every test and treatment, seemed to result in more moves to the _____________ for end-of-life dementia patient than when payment was on a _________ basis.

(2)  People with advanced dementia won't usually benefit from ______________ during the last months of life for ______________.

(3)  Nursing homes may have an incentive to send very sick people to the hospital because ________________________.

(4)  Managed care organizations receive a __________ for each person they cover.

(5)  The researcher indicated that "it turns out that (the patient) may not _________ even if you sent them to the hospital."

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