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Appendix A: The Potential Role of Various Data Sources in a National Health Account
Pages 205-210

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From page 205...
... The annual March supplement produces national and state estimates on health insurance coverage, including private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and military health care (CHAMPUS)
From page 206...
... The MCBS began in 1991; it is a patient-level comprehensive source of information on the health status, health care utilization, and expenditures of feefor-service Medicare beneficiaries, health insurance coverage, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the entire spectrum of Medicare beneficiaries. Self-reported utilization and expenditure information undergoes extensive vali dation using Medicare claims data.
From page 207...
... The surveys are designed to answer key questions of interest to health care policy makers, public health professionals, and researchers. They may include the factors that influence the use of health care resources; the quality of health care, including safety; and disparities in health care services provided to population subgroups in the United States.
From page 208...
... The NHIS allows the monitoring of trends in illness and disability and the tracking of progress toward achieving national health objectives. Annual updates of the NHIS are available via down load from the NCHS website (see http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm)
From page 209...
... population's access to health care, use of health services, expenditures and sources of payment for care, health insurance coverage, health status, risk factors and disease prevalence, demographic characteristics, and employment and economic status. The NMES is publicly available via download from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (see http://www.icpsr.
From page 210...
... has annual Medicare spending for 5 percent of the Medicare population and includes data on medical expenses for inpatient hospital stays, outpatient services, skilled nursing facility stays, home health agency charges, and physician services. The linked SEER-CMHSF con tains all Medicare claims for the cancer patients included in the SEER registries.


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