Quantifying the effect of a cancer diagnosis on Medicare payments and use according to new Public Use Files.
New public use data sets available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include a cancer indicator that allows for interesting comparisons with other chronic conditions among Medicare beneficiaries. When compared with beneficiaries with no chronic conditions, Medicare beneficiaries wi...
- Autores:
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Prada Ríos, Sergio Iván
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2014
- Institución:
- Universidad ICESI
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio ICESI
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/78320
- Acceso en línea:
- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84891840839&partnerID=tZOtx3y1
http://hdl.handle.net/10906/78320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cncr.28409
https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.28409
- Palabra clave:
- Economía
Economics
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | New public use data sets available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include a cancer indicator that allows for interesting comparisons with other chronic conditions among Medicare beneficiaries. When compared with beneficiaries with no chronic conditions, Medicare beneficiaries with a cancer diagnosis and no other chronic condition cost 5 times more and result in 5 times as many inpatient admissions. |
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