Design: Representative Medicare part A and B claims data were obtained from the Medicare current beneficiary survey, 1992 to 1995.
The current beneficiary of his calming influence needs no points-scoring chart to be convinced of his virtue.
This subsample of the nationally representative Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) represents 11,627,107 beneficiaries with disabilities.
To determine rates of glaucoma medication utilization among glaucoma suspects in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and identify recent utilization patterns for various hypotensive drug classes.
Participants: Data from the 1997 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (n=9298), a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries who were older than 64 years of age.
Court papers show that in 2005 each current beneficiary was to receive an $8.3 million payout from the trust, financed with a portion of the dividends from Hearst Corporation stock.
"It does not require a doubling of participants every time a payment is made to a current beneficiary, or a geometric increase in the number of participants," it found.
The model was run on a panel of 1993-1996 data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, supplemented with linked data on Medicare HMO characteristics and area supply characteristics.
The current beneficiary is the SPD's enemy, the Left Party, a new fusion between east German ex-communists and ex-Social Democrats who think their party has betrayed its leftist principles.
According to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which polls some 12,000 elderly Americans about their health care three times a year, residents of regions with relatively large numbers of doctors are no more satisfied with their care than the elderly who live in places with fewer doctors.
To measure disability, Cutler and colleagues first turned to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, an annual questionnaire that asks Medicare recipients whether they have difficulty with physical tasks such as walking, getting in or out of bed, or showering, as well as day-to-day tasks like cooking, managing money, or doing housework.
