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MCBS Profiles
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
For general, non-technical audiences, the MCBS Highlights series offers interesting insights into health care delivery, using the MCBS data. Because of the unique coverage and depth of the MCBS, these MCBS Profiles can shed new light on health care quality and expenditure issues in the Medicare population. Recent issues addressing flu shot delivery, end-of-life expenditures, and more, are available here.
For more technical audiences, the data dictionary and other quantitative aspects
of the survey are explained through this link
.
- Flu Shot Trends
in the Elderly Medicare Population (.pdf 166 KB)
Immunization rates for influenza have been measured by the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) since its beginning in 1991. Despite a long-term upward trend, the most recent data show a definite dip in the rate for the 2000-2001 flu season. MCBS data are used to show a likely reason for this decline. - Last Year of Life
Expenditures (.pdf 202 KB)
The total health expenditures of Medicare beneficiaries tend to increase dramatically in their last years of life. While there are substantial increases in payments by all sources, Medicare spending increases at the greatest rate. This change in the distribution of payment sources is driven mainly by a tendency to more intensive use of hospital inpatient services in the last three months of a beneficiary's life.
The Researchers Home Page on the CMS website offers additional information on research-related activities at the Agency, and important links to new developments.
The MCBS Home Pageis a continuous, multipurpose survey of a nationally representative sample of aged, disabled, and institutionalized Medicare beneficiaries.
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Last Modified on Thursday, September 23, 2004
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services