title: Quantifying the effect of a cancer diagnosis on Medicare payments and use according to new Public Use Files.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Research Center for Social Protection and Health Economics (PROESA), Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia.
authors.forename: Sergio I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Prada
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology