Medicare Utilization and Spending Among Nurses Compared with the General United States Population.

ABSTRACT: Background: To better understand health habits in older nurses versus the general population, we sought to determine whether the demographics, health care utilization, and Medicare spending by the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) participants enrolled in Medicare and a matched sample of Medicare beneficiaries meaningfully differed. Materials and Methods: Analytic cohorts included a random 20% sample of Medicare beneficiaries continuously enrolled in fee for service (FFS) Medicare that were propensity matched to the NHS participants continuously enrolled in FFS Medicare in a single year (2012). Matching was based upon preselected demographic factors and health status, using a nearest-neighbor matching algorithm to obtain a 1:1 match without replacement. Healthcare util

SUBMITTER: Kapadia NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6306677 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature