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Why Has Growth in Spending for Fee-for-Service Medicare Slowed?: Working Paper 2013-06

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  • Melinda Buntin
  • Michael Levine

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Growth in spending per beneficiary in the fee-for-service portion of Medicare has slowed substantially in recent years. The slowdown has been widespread, extending across all of the major service categories, groups of beneficiaries that receive very different amounts of medical care, and all major regions. We estimate that slower growth in payment rates and changes in observable factors affecting beneficiaries’ demand for services explain little of the slowdown in spending growth for elderly beneficiaries between the 2000-2005 and 2007-2010 periods. Specifically, available

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  • Melinda Buntin & Michael Levine, 2013. "Why Has Growth in Spending for Fee-for-Service Medicare Slowed?: Working Paper 2013-06," Working Papers 44513, Congressional Budget Office.
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    1. R. Tamara Konetzka & Karen B. Lasater & Edward C. Norton & Rachel M. Werner, 2018. "Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes?," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 4(4), pages 411-432, Fall.
    2. Xiaotong Niu & Melinda Buntin & Joyce Manchester, 2015. "Changes in Medicare Spending per Beneficiary by Age: Working Paper 2015-08," Working Papers 51027, Congressional Budget Office.
    3. Tran, My & Gannon, Brenda & Rose, Christiern, 2023. "The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: Evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    4. Vincenzo Atella & Joanna Kopinska, 2018. "New Technologies and Costs," CEIS Research Paper 442, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 09 Aug 2018.
    5. Bill Dupor & Rodrigo Guerrero, 2021. "The Aggregate And Local Economic Effects Of Government Financed Health Care," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 59(2), pages 662-670, April.
    6. Amitabh Chandra & Jonathan Holmes & Jonathan Skinner, 2013. "Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 44(2 (Fall)), pages 261-323.

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