Title: |
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Aligning the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to Aggregate U.S. Benchmarks, 2007 |
Description: |
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Household-level survey data are valuable for a range of research efforts, including health policy
microsimulation analyses, distributional studies, and analyses of condition-specific spending.
Household data, however, do not provide a complete picture of health care expenditures, because
they exclude certain types of outlays, such as administrative costs, government payments to
providers that are not linked to patient events, research, and public health. Household data also
do not provide information on employer premium contributions or tax subsidies. This paper
updates prior research by Selden and Sing (S&S, 2008), applying the S&S method to align the
2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) with aggregate benchmarks from the National
Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) and to supplement MEPS with tax expenditure estimates.
The resulting database supports a range of health research initiatives that require comprehensive
measures of medical expenditures such as health reform simulations. |
Author(s): |
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Didem Bernard and Thomas M. Selden and Yuriy O. Pylypchuk |
Agency: |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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