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1. Medicare And Medicaid Spending Variations are Strongly Linked Within Hospital Regions But Not at Overall State Level Medicare And Medicaid Spending Variations are Strongly Linked Within Hospital Regions But Not at Overall State Level...
2. Share of Cost, Supplemental Coverage Associated With More Rapid Spending Growth For Medicare Beneficiarie Share of Cost, Supplemental Coverage Associated With More Rapid Spending Growth For Medicare Beneficiarie...
3. Share of Cost, Additional Reductions In Medicare Spending Growth Will Likely Require Shifting Costs To Beneficiaries Share of Cost, Additional Reductions In Medicare Spending Growth Will Likely Require Shifting Costs To Beneficiaries ...
4. State Spending on Dual Eligibles Under Age 65 Shows Variations, Evidence Of Cost Shifting From Medicaid To Medicare State Spending on Dual Eligibles Under Age 65 Shows Variations, Evidence Of Cost Shifting From Medicaid To Medicare...
5. Share of Cost, Treated Disease Prevalence and Spending per Treated Case Drove Most of The Growth In Health Care Spending In 1987-2009 Share of Cost, Treated Disease Prevalence and Spending per Treated Case Drove Most of The Growth In Health Care Spending In 1987-2009 ...
6. Recession Contributes To Slowest Annual Rate Of Increase In Health Spending In Five Decades In 2009, US health care spending grew 4.0 percent—a historically low rate of annual increase—to $2.5 trillion, or $8,086 per person. Despite the slower growth, the share of the gross domestic product devoted to health spending increased to 17.6 percent in 2009 from 16.6 percent in 2008. The growth rate of health spending continued to outpace the growth of the […]...
7. Share of Cost, Large Increases In Spending On Postacute Care In Medicare Point To The Potential For Cost Savings In These Settings Share of Cost, Large Increases In Spending On Postacute Care In Medicare Point To The Potential For Cost Savings In These Settings ...
8. Analysis of Medicare Advantage HMOs Compared With Traditional Medicare Shows Lower Use of Many Services Analysis of Medicare Advantage HMOs Compared With Traditional Medicare Shows Lower Use of Many Services ...
9. Share of Cost, The Slowdown In Health Care Spending In 2009-11 Reflected Factors Other Than The Weak Economy And May Continue To Persist Share of Cost, The Slowdown In Health Care Spending In 2009-11 Reflected Factors Other Than The Weak Economy And May Continue To Persist ...
10. Share of Cost, If Slow Rate Of Health Care Spending Growth Persists, Projections May Be Off By $770 Billion Share of Cost, If Slow Rate Of Health Care Spending Growth Persists, Projections May Be Off By $770 Billion ...
11. Share of Cost, Public Financing Of The Medicare Program Will Make Its Uniform Structure Increasingly Costly To Sustain Share of Cost, Public Financing Of The Medicare Program Will Make Its Uniform Structure Increasingly Costly To Sustain ...
12. Steps To Reduce Favorable Risk Selection In Medicare Advantage Largely Succeeded Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks—healthier, lower-cost patients—than has traditional Medicare. The disproportionate enrollment of lower-cost patients and avoidance of higher-cost ones during the 1990s—known as favorable selection—resulted in Medicare’s spending more per beneficiary who enrolled in Medicare Advantage than if the enrollee had remained in traditional Medicare. A looked […]...
13. Share of Cost, Medicare Doesn’t Work As Well For Younger, Disabled Beneficiaries As It Does For Older Enrollees [Web First] Medicare is not working as well for its eight million disabled beneficiaries under age sixty-five as it is for its older beneficiaries. We report on a 2008 survey that found significant differences between the two Medicare populations, with the younger group experiencing more problems of cost and access. Even with the Medicare Part D prescription […]...
14. It is about time to get serious about cutting spending It is about time to get serious about cutting spending...
15. New Risk-Adjustment System Was Associated With Reduced Favorable Selection In Medicare Advantage New Risk-Adjustment System Was Associated With Reduced Favorable Selection In Medicare Advantage ...