Advance Care Planning in an Accountable Care Organization Is Associated with Increased Advanced Directive Documentation and Decreased Costs.

assessed the impact of care coordination and assisting with ADs in high-risk patients and found that six-month costs were lower by $4,172, which did not reach statistical significance, but over 40% in both groups were alive at study conclusion. 36 The SUPPORT trial, 37 which included telephonic end-of-life counseling by nurses, was secondarily analyzed by Hamlet et al. who found Medicare costs were $1,913 lower in the intervention group in the last six months of life. 38 The SUP

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