Healthcare utilization and costs among high-need and frail Mexican American Medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine Medicare health care spending and health services utilization among high-need population segments in older Mexican Americans, and to examine the association of frailty on health care spending and utilization.

Methods

Retrospective cohort study of the innovative linkage of Medicare data with the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (H-EPESE) were used. There were 863 participants, which contributed 1,629 person years of information. Frailty, cognition, and social risk factors were identified from the H-EPESE, and chronic conditions were identified from the Medicare file. The Cost and Use file was used to calculate four categories of Medicare spending on: hospital services, physician services, post-acute care service

SUBMITTER: Rivera-Hernandez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8759642 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature