Disaster impacts on cost and utilization of Medicare

Abstract Background To estimate changes in the cost and utilization of Medicare among beneficiaries over age 65 who have been impacted by a natural disaster, we merged publically available county-level Medicare claims for the years 2008–2012 with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) data relat...

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Main Authors: Nathanael Rosenheim, Shannon Grabich, Jennifer A. Horney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-018-2900-9