Health Care and out-of-Pocket (OOP) Costs Among Medicare Beneficiaries Diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Medicare Beneficiaries’ Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care

Medicare beneficiaries spent a median of $3,324 a year of their own money on health care in 2010. Ten percent of beneficiaries—almost 5 million people—spent more than $8,030. Half of all Medicare beneficiaries spent at least 16.4 percent of their income on health care. The burden of health care costs was particularly heavy for the sickest and oldest beneficiaries as well as for near-poor benefi...

Medicare Beneficiaries' High Out-of-Pocket Costs: Cost Burdens by Income and Health Status.

ISSUE: Fifty-six million people--17 percent of the U.S. population--rely on Medicare. Yet, its benefits exclude dental, vision, hearing, and long-term services, and it contains no ceiling on out-of-pocket costs for covered services, exposing beneficiaries to high costs. GOAL: To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by in...

Out-of-pocket health care costs.

Average out-of-pocket health care costs for Medicare+Choice enrollees increase 10 percent in 2003.

M edicare reform is one of the top issues on the domestic policy agenda, and the role of private plans in that reform is one of its critical dimensions.The Medicare experience with private plans has been principally through the Medicare+Choice (M+C) program. M+C plans, primarily HMOs, receive capitated payments from Medicare and provide coverage for Medicare-covered services.To the extent that ...

Average out-of-pocket health care costs for Medicare+Choice enrollees increase substantially in 2002.

A fter rapid government payment increases in the midto late 1990s, Medicare+Choice plans now face sharply reduced annual increases in government payments for basic Medicare benefits (Gold 2001a). In response, Medicare+Choice plans are cutting back on supplemental benefits and raising premiums (Gold and Achman 2001; Achman and Gold 2002a, 2002c).These changes have increased outof-pocket spending...