Modeling per capita state health expenditure variation: State-level characteristics matter

Medicare and Medicaid Research Review

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cuckler, Gigi ^a   Sisko, Andrea ^a  

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

Author keywords

Geographic variation; Health care costs; Health spending by state; Health spending variation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ELDERLY RESIDENT; ERROR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INCOME; LINEARITY; MODEL; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBESITY; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; ROBUSTNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; AGE; AGED; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891761478     PISSN: 21590354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5600/mmrr.003.04.a03     Document Type: Article

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