Medicare Advantage members' expected out-of-pocket spending for inpatient and skilled nursing facility services

Health Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1019-1027

  Keohane, Laura M ^a   Grebla, Regina C ^a,b   Mor, Vincent ^a,c   Trivedi, Amal N ^a,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Global Health Economics Outcomes Research and Epidemiology Division at Shire   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAY HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; COST; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INSURANCE; NURSING HOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST SHARING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MALE; MEDICARE PART C; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930916563     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1146     Document Type: Article

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