Disability profile and health care costs of Medicare beneficiaries under age sixty-five.
Medicare has more than five million beneficiaries with disabilities who are under age sixty-five, and enrollment is rising rapidly. This paper presents a profile of nonelderly beneficiaries in fee-for-service Medicare by major disability category, excluding those with end-stage renal disease. The profile is based on Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Cost and Use data for 1994-1996. We estimate Medicare costs by service type and health care costs by payer type, and we discuss implications for Medicare reform and related federal disability policy issues.
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Health Insurance Reform Project, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
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D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000145:classification*; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D014481:United States