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. 2019 Jun 1;179(6):827-829.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8107.

Assessment of First-Year Use of Medicare's Advance Care Planning Billing Codes

Kimberly Pelland  1 , Blake Morphis  1 , Daniel Harris  2 , Rebekah Gardner  1   3
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Assessment of First-Year Use of Medicare's Advance Care Planning Billing Codes

Kimberly Pelland et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

Abstract

This observational analysis characterizes the first year of use of the Medicare code for advance care planning and describes beneficiaries most likely to receive advance care planning.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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