Medicare Rule, Finances Likely Affect Blacks’ Use Of End-Of-Life Hospice Services, Study Finds

Blacks might be less likely than whites to seek end-of-life hospice care because of financial barriers and a Medicare rule that requires hospice patients to forgo additional curative treatments, according to a study published in the journal Cancer, Reuters Health reports. For the study, lead researcher Jessica Fishman of the

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on January 4th, 2009