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Background
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began to reimburse clinicians for advance care planning (ACP) discussions, effective January 1, 2016. We sought to characterize the timing and setting of first‐billed ACP discussions among Medicare decedents to inform future research on ACP billing codes.
Methods
Using a random 20% sample of Medicare fee‐for‐service beneficiaries...