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Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) contains a wealth of information about the people whose care is financed by the program. This article examines their satisfaction with medical care received and explores the relationship of these attitudes with the characteristics of subgroups of the en...

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Autor principal: Adler, Gerald S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10172473
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description The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) contains a wealth of information about the people whose care is financed by the program. This article examines their satisfaction with medical care received and explores the relationship of these attitudes with the characteristics of subgroups of the enrolled population. Satisfaction with medical care among Medicare benefciaries is found to be generally high (80-90 percent). Disabled Medicare beneficiaries are less satisfied than the aged, and health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees less satisfied than fee-for-service (FFS) patients. Others with lower-than-average satisfaction are people with poorer health status, those covered by Medicaid, and those without supplementary insurance.
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spelling pubmed-41935232014-11-04 Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS Adler, Gerald S. Health Care Financ Rev New Initiatives and Approaches in Health Care Quality The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) contains a wealth of information about the people whose care is financed by the program. This article examines their satisfaction with medical care received and explores the relationship of these attitudes with the characteristics of subgroups of the enrolled population. Satisfaction with medical care among Medicare benefciaries is found to be generally high (80-90 percent). Disabled Medicare beneficiaries are less satisfied than the aged, and health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees less satisfied than fee-for-service (FFS) patients. Others with lower-than-average satisfaction are people with poorer health status, those covered by Medicaid, and those without supplementary insurance. CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC4193523/ /pubmed/10172473 Text en
spellingShingle New Initiatives and Approaches in Health Care Quality
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Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title_full Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title_fullStr Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title_full_unstemmed Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title_short Medicare Beneficiaries Rate Their Medical Care: New Data From the MCBS
title_sort medicare beneficiaries rate their medical care: new data from the mcbs
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193523/
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