{"id":2282,"date":"2009-04-18T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2009-04-18T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:06:35","slug":"medicare-spatial-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/18\/medicare-spatial-variation\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Spatial Variation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyalgorithms.com\/\">Healthy Algorithms<\/a>, the healthy theoretical computer scientist, puts up a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyalgorithms.com\/2009\/04\/18\/mysterious-question-differences-in-health-care-costs\/\">graph<\/a> about spatial variation in Medicare expenditures in the last six months of life.  Paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~jskinner\/documents\/BarnatoAreRegionalVariations_000.pdf\">here<\/a>.  Interesting stuff, but am I the only one who gaffs when reading: &#8220;Previous studies have shown that regions with greater overall EOL spending do not have better outcomes&#8221; (EOL = end of life)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Healthy Algorithms, the healthy theoretical computer scientist, puts up a very interesting graph about spatial variation in Medicare expenditures in the last six months of life. Paper here. Interesting stuff, but am I the only one who gaffs when reading: &#8220;Previous studies have shown that regions with greater overall EOL spending do not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/18\/medicare-spatial-variation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medicare Spatial Variation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}