Health status and medical treatment of the future elderly : final report /
The ability to predict future health care costs reasonably accurately is critical to planning for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The models used for such projections to date, however, are limited in terms of their capacity to take into account the complex array of factors like...
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND,
[2004]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Prospects for medical advances in the 21st century
- The medical expert panels
- The future elderly model (FEM)
- Health expenditures
- Health status
- The health status of future Medicare entering cohorts
- Scenarios
- Usefulness to the Office of the Actuary
- Conclusions.