Data and Code for: "Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Howard, Emory University; Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University; Theodore Caputi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Project Citation: 

Gruber, Jonathan, Howard, David, Leder-Luis, Jetson, and Caputi, Theodore. Data and Code for: “Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209323V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This is data and code for the article: "Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospice and End of Life Care." 

Abstract:
The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, but patients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about overuse among the Alzheimer’s and Dementia (ADRD) population in the rapidly growing for- profit sector. We provide the first causal estimates of the effect of for-profit hospice on patient spending using the entry of for-profit hospices over twenty years. We find hospice has saved money for Medicare by offsetting other expensive care among ADRD patients. As a result, policies limiting hospice use including revenue caps and anti-fraud lawsuits are distortionary and deter potentially cost-saving admissions.


Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms hospice; end of life; for-profit health care; fraud; federal regulations
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      K40 Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior: General
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1999 – 2019


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