2019
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Chartbook
CMS has released the annual
update to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Chartbook with data
for 2019: 2019 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Chartbook.
The MCBS Chartbook is designed to provide the public with a collection of
charts and tables presenting estimates from the MCBS.
The MCBS Chartbook is organized
into 5 sections:
- Section
1: Who is in the Medicare Population?
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries.
- Section
2: How Healthy are Medicare Beneficiaries?
Self-reported health status and health behaviors of Medicare
beneficiaries.
- Section
3: What is the Medicare Population’s Access to Care and How Satisfied Are
They with Their Care? Access to and satisfaction with
health care services.
- Section
4: What Health Care Services Do Medicare Beneficiaries Receive?
Health care use by Medicare beneficiaries across nine service categories,
including: inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services,
physician/supplier services, dental services, prescription drugs, Medicare
hospice, Medicare home health, skilled nursing facility, and long-term
nursing home care.
- Section
5: How Much Do Health Care Services for the Medicare Population Cost?
Health care expenditures and all sources of payment across service
categories.
The 2019 MCBS Chartbook
includes a special feature on beneficiaries’ telemedicine use and experiences
with forgone care during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes a new section
on trends in vaccinations against the flu and total health care expenditures.
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