Medicare and Medicaid
Research from University of Texas, Department of Internal Medicine in medicare and medicaid provides new insights
Published in Aging and Elder Health Week, March 25th, 2007
Current study results from the report, "Epidemiology of medicare abuse: the example of power wheelchairs," have been published. According to a study from the United States, "To determine the effect of neighborhood ethnic composition on power wheelchair prescriptions. The 5% noncancer sample of Medicare recipients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database, from 1994 to 2001."
"SEER regions. Individuals covered by Medicare living in SEER regions without a cancer diagnosis. Individual characteristics (age, sex, ethnicity, justifying diagnosis, and comorbidity), primary diagnoses, neighborhood characteristics (percentage black,...
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