Medicare: High-Expenditure Part B Drugs Metadata
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Title
- Main Title Medicare: High-Expenditure Part B Drugs
Creator
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Author: United States. Government Accountability Office.Creator Type: Organization
Publisher
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Name: United States. Government Accountability Office.Place of Publication: Washington D.C.
Date
- Creation: 2012-10-12
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2010, the 55 highest-expenditure Part B drugs represented $16.9 billion in spending, or about 85 percent of all Medicare spending on Part B drugs, which totaled $19.5 billion. The number of Medicare beneficiaries who received each of these drugs varied from 15.2 million receiving the influenza vaccines to 660 hemophilia A patients receiving a group of biologicals known collectively as factor viii recombinant, which had the largest average annual cost per beneficiary--$217,000. Our analysis showed that most of the 55 drugs increased in expenditures, prices, and average annual cost per beneficiary from 2008 to 2010. The 5 drugs with the largest increase in Medicare expenditures over this time period also had the largest increase in the number of beneficiaries receiving each drug. Four of the 10 drugs which showed the greatest increase in expenditures were also among the 10 drugs showing the greatest price increases."
Subject
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Government accountability -- United States.
- Keyword: health care
- Keyword: medicare
- Keyword: correspondence
Coverage
- Place Name: United States
Collection
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Name: Government Accountability Office ReportsCode: GAORT
Institution
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Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents DepartmentCode: UNTGD
Rights
- Rights License: pd
Resource Type
- Text
Format
- Text
Identifier
- Report No.: GAO-13-46R
- Accession or Local Control No: 649457
- URL: http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-46R
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc296889