What is the percentage of health care costs in the final months of life?

Question

I have heard that 80% of health care expenditures in the US are spent in the final three months of life. This seems to be one ofthe reason that the US has higher cost of medical care than other countries.

Answer 1

Not for everyone, but for Medicare 77% costs occurred in the last year of life, 52% of them in the last 2 mo, and 40% in the last month, When you are old and become seriously ill, you are more likely to die than the seriously ill young.