Medicare insolvency
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- Trends in Medicare program payments: CYs 1967-94. // Health Care Financing Review;1996 Supplement, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p24
Discusses the statistics of trends in Medicare payments between 1967 and 1994. Periods experiencing an increase in program payments; Factors responsible for the increase of Medicare payments from 1973.
- Medicare program payments, by area of residence. // Health Care Financing Review;1996 Supplement, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p26
Discusses the demographic statistics of Medicare payments trends for 1994. Regions in the United States with the highest and the lowest Medicare payments; Average payments in urban and rural areas; State rankings.
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Discusses the statistics of Medicare payments trends between 1967 and 1994 according to the type of availed medical services. Inpatient hospital and physician and supplier services comprising the majority of Medicare payments; Comparison between the 1967 and 1994 statistics.
