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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

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The Oregon registry, for example, was developed by private philanthropy, but its operations are now funded by the state, with a planned endowment in the works. Indeed, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2029. Another comparable effort is the U.S.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

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Hospitals’ Medicare Losses Dwarf Medicaid Losses,” hospitals have been losing nearly three times as much caring for Medicare patients as they have caring for their Medicaid patients, traditionally the worst paid-for insured-patient group. a year in the decade after. By 2030, there will be 81.5

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