Acute Health Care Costs for the Aged Medicare Population: Overview and Policy Options

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Christensen ◽  
Stephen H. Long ◽  
Jack Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Medicare Population ◽  
Acute Health Care ◽  
Care Costs

scholarly journals Falls in the Medicare Population: Incidence, Associated Factors, and Impact on Health Care

2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Shumway-Cook ◽  
Marcia A Ciol ◽  
Jeanne Hoffman ◽  
Brian J Dudgeon ◽  
Kathryn Yorkston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Medicare Population ◽  
Recurrent Falls ◽  
Care Costs

Background and Purpose Falls are a major health problem in the elderly community; however, questions regarding incidence, risk factors, and provider response to falls exist. The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of falls, associated factors, health care costs, and provider response to falls among Medicare beneficiaries. Participants The participants were 12,669 respondents to the Medicare Current Beneficiaries Survey (MCBS). Methods Categories of number of falls (none, one, recurrent) and injury type (medically injurious versus not medically injurious) were created from the falls supplement to the MCBS. Means and proportions for the entire Medicare population were estimated using sampling weights. The association between sociodemographic variables and fall status was modeled using ordinal or binary logistic regression. Aggregate health costs by fall category were estimated from claims data. Results Population estimates of falls reported in 2002 ranged from 3.7 million (single fall) to 3.1 million (recurrent falls), with an estimated 2.2 million people having a medically injurious fall. Recurrent falls were more likely with increased age, being female, being nonwhite, reporting fair or poor health, and increased number of limitations in personal activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living and comorbidities. Although estimates of the actual costs of falls could not be determined, “fallers” consistently had larger utilization costs than “nonfallers” for the year 2002. Fewer than half (48%) of the beneficiaries reported talking to a health care provider following a fall, and 60% of those beneficiaries reported receiving fall prevention information. Discussion and Conclusions Falls are common and may be associated with significant health care costs. Most importantly, health care providers may be missing many opportunities to provide fall prevention information to older people.

Disability and health care costs in the Medicare population

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (9) ◽  
pp. 1196-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leighton Chan ◽  
Shelli Beaver ◽  
Richard F. MacLehose ◽  
Amitabh Jha ◽  
Matthew Maciejewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Disability And Health ◽  
Medicare Population ◽  
Care Costs

Burden of Parkinson's Disease by Severity: Health Care Costs in the U.S. Medicare Population

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabila Dahodwala ◽  
Pengxiang Li ◽  
Jordan Jahnke ◽  
Vrushabh P. Ladage ◽  
Amy R. Pettit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Medicare Population ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Finances of the Nation: Provincial Debt Sustainability in Canada: Demographics, Federal Transfers, and COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1083-1122
Author(s):  
Trevor Tombe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Debt Sustainability ◽  
Debt Burden ◽  
The Face ◽  
Federal Debt ◽  
Economic Shock ◽  
Care Costs

In this article, Trevor Tombe examines the sustainability of Canada's public debt in the face of steadily rising provincial debt, a severe economic shock from COVID-19, and mounting health-care costs associated with an aging population. He finds that while the federal debt is solidly sustainable, despite a large increase owing to COVID-19, the debt burden of most provincial governments is not. He discusses some of the policy options available to improve fiscal outlooks, focusing in particular on reform of federal transfers.

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