Medicare payments: How much do chronic conditions matter?

Medicare and Medicaid Research Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Erdem, Erkan ^a   Prada, Sergio I ^b,c   Haffer, Samuel C ^d  

^a IMPAQ International LLC   (United States)

^b PROESA Research Center for Social Protection and Health Economics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

^d CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic conditions; Chronic disease; Dual eligibility; Gender sex differences in health and health care; Health care costs; Health promotion prevention screening; Medicare; Medicare part A; Medicare part B; Public use files

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL FEE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MEDICARE; MEDICARE PART A; MEDICARE PART B; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885766232     PISSN: 21590354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.003.02.b02     Document Type: Article

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