MedPAC Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program, 2025
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Description
Provides an overview of Medicare spending and highlights data on Medicare beneficiary demographics, dual-eligible beneficiaries, quality of care provided through the Medicare program, and other payer liability. Examines settings of care, including rural-specific provider sites, as they relate to spending, access to care, and profit margins. Compares rural and urban beneficiaries and providers throughout. Chart 6-2 addresses rural hospital closures and Rural Emergency Hospital conversions.
Date
07/2025
Organization
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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· Accountable Care Organizations
· Closures of healthcare facilities and services
· Home health
· Hospice and palliative care
· Hospitals
· Inpatient care
· Long-term care
· Medicare
· Outpatient care
· Pharmacy and prescription drugs
· Policy
· Post-acute care
· Reimbursement and payment models
· Rural-urban differences
· Service delivery models
· Specialty care
· Statistics and data
· Telehealth