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Publications and Data Provided by CMS's Office of the Actuary.

Medicare Trust Funds

• Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Insurance trust funds
• Technical Panel Review of Assumptions and Methods of the Medicare Trustees' Financial Projections
• Average trust fund interest rates for periods of 1 to 12 months duration

Medicare Rates

• Medicare Advantage (Medicare+Choice) capitation payment rates and information
• Estimated Sustainable Growth Rate and Conversion Factor for Medicare Payments to Physicians
• Analysis of physician response to changes in Medicare payment rates
• Medicare premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance
• Medicare Advantage Out-of-network payment information
• Market basket and related products

Medicare and Medicaid

• A brief overview of the Medicare and Medicaid programs
• Monthly Trend Report for Medicare & Medicaid

Health Accounts

• Health Expenditures and Sources of Funds -- historical and projected national health expenditures and historical estimates by state
• Health Care Indicators -- contains data and analysis of recent trends in health care spending, employment and prices
• Business, Households, and Government: Health Care Spending, 1987-2000
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  • Methodology

Prescription Drug Analysis

• Expense distributions

Studies

• Last year of life -- characteristics of Medicare expenditures for care provided in the last year of life