Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of … prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has … supplemental health insurance and different types of medical care, and uses the model to forecast the effects of the new Medicare …

prevention centers on the need to cut the costs of highly costly systems such as Medicare. However, little is known about the … household level. It also analyzes the associations between a diverse set of preventive services and Medicare expenditures in … older adults. Using a panel data set from the Health and Retirement study linked to Medicare claims data, I find evidence …

Australia's health care financing arrangements under Medicare involve Commonwealth subsidisation of private fee …-for-service (FFS) medical services produced both in- and out-of-hospital. The Medicare institution, including those subsidy … arrangements, operates in a uniform manner across geographical space. From time to time, since the introduction of Medicare on 1 …

determining rates of hospice use. DATA SOURCES: Medicare claims data for a cohort of elderly patients newly diagnosed with lung … defined within the Medicare hospital claims data using validated algorithms to detect incident cases of disease with a three … 1997. Individual-level data was linked to the Area Resource File using county identifiers present in the Medicare claims …