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Changes in Medicare Spending per Beneficiary by Age: Working Paper 2015-08

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  • Xiaotong Niu
  • Melinda Buntin
  • Joyce Manchester

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The aging of the population exerts upward pressure on federal spending for health care, especially Medicare, as both the number and average age of elderly beneficiaries increase. Total Medicare expenditures may also be affected by changes in relative per-beneficiary spending for beneficiaries of different ages as the population ages. In this paper, we use the Master Beneficiary Summary File to estimate spending per beneficiary for the elderly population (people between ages 65 and 105) enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program between 1999 and 2012

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  • Xiaotong Niu & Melinda Buntin & Joyce Manchester, 2015. "Changes in Medicare Spending per Beneficiary by Age: Working Paper 2015-08," Working Papers 51027, Congressional Budget Office.
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    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health

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