Data from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (see here) has a report for the year 2007 that calculates the "percent of decedents seeing 10 or more physicians during the last six months of life."  The data may be downloaded for specific areas of a state.  Below are the areas listed for Mississippi (and the percent of decedents in that area that saw 10 or more physicians during the last six months of life).

The report states that:

The study population includes beneficiaries with one of nine chronic conditions who were enrolled in traditional (fee-for-service) Medicare and died during the measurement period.