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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 2/2013

01-02-2013 | Editorials

Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending and Charon’s Obol

Author: J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 2/2013

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In this issue of JGIM, Kelley et al. used nationally representative survey data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine out-of-pocket household spending on medical care for 3,209 Medicare beneficiaries in the last 5 years of life.1 For beneficiaries dying between 2002 and 2008, they found this spending averaged $38,688, ranging from $5,163 for decedents in the bottom quartile to $163,121 for those in the top decile. …
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Title
Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending and Charon’s Obol
Author
J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-02-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2265-4

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