Health Services Utilization After Fractures: Evidence From Medicare

Health services utilization after fractures: evidence from Medicare.

BACKGROUND Osteoporosis-related fractures impose a large and growing societal burden, including adverse health effects and direct medical costs. Postfracture utilization of health care services represents an alternative measure of the resource costs associated with these fractures. METHODS We use a 5% random sample of Medicare claims data to construct annual cohorts (2000-2004) of beneficiari...

Utilization of Home Health Services among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries before and after the Pps

The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare

We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 is accompanied by a narrowing of disparities across race and education groups. Groups with bigger increases in coverage at 65 experience bigger reductions i...

Utilization of Medicare services by beneficiaries having partial Medicare coverage

With the rapid increases in Medicare expenditures, policymakers are constantly reevaluating the use of and the need for services provided. One approach to better understand these issues is to identify major subgroups of the Medicare population for more detailed evaluation. A disaggregation of the data can pinpoint critical high expenditure areas for further study and may suggest potential cost ...

Equity in the Utilization of Healthcare Services in India: Evidence from National Sample Survey

Background The pursuit of equity in health and healthcare has been the key feature of health policy in India. However, despite the policy significance, the volume of literature available on this issue is scarce. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to examine the horizontal inequities in healthcare utilization, consisting of outpatient and inpatient care in 15 major states and north-eastern regi...