Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are
unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending achieve …

Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are
unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending provide …

Background: End-of-life medical expenditures exceed costs of care during other years, vary
across regions, and are likely to be unsustainable. Identifying determinants of expenditure …

Geographic variation in per-beneficiary Medicare spending that cannot be explained by
wages and the prices of other inputs to health care or by demographic and health …

Background Although geographic differences in Medicare spending are widely considered
to be evidence of program inefficiency, policymakers need to understand how differences in …

The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE april 18, 2013 n engl j med 368; 16 nejm. org
april 18, 2013 1465 and other health care providers. In particular, the committee was asked …

Per capita Medicare spending is more than twice as high in New York City and Miami than in
places like Salem, Oregon. How much of these differences can be explained by Medicare's …

Medicare spending varies more than twofold among regions, and the variations persist even
after differences in health are corrected for. Higher levels of Medicare spending are due …

Importance While the substantial variation in health care spending across regions and
hospitals is well known, key clinical decisions are ultimately made by physicians. However …

OBJECTIVE: To explore whether geographic variations in Medicare hospital utilization rates
are due to differences in local hospital capacity, after controlling for socioeconomic status …