MCBS Highlights: Prescribed Medicines: A Comparison of FFS With HMO Enrollees
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The Medicare Current BeneficiarySurvey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing enrollees' access to medical care (Adler, 1994). Based on a stratified random sample, we can derive information about the health care use, expenditure, and financing of Medicare's 36 million enrollees. We can also learn about those enrollees' health status, living arrangements, and access to and satisfaction with care. In the charts that follow, we have presented some findings on variations in the use of prescribed medicines by Medicare fee-forservice (FFS) and health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees.
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