For general, non-technical audiences, the MCBS Highlights series offers interesting insights into health care delivery, using the MCBS data. Because of the unique coverage and depth of the MCBS, these MCBS Profiles can shed new light on health care quality and expenditure issues in the Medicare population. Recent issues addressing flu shot delivery, end-of-life expenditures, and more, are available here.

For more technical audiences, the data dictionary and other quantitative aspects of the survey are explained through the MCBS link in the Related Links Inside CMS.

(Please click on the links in the Downloads area for the MCBS Profiles.)

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Flu Shot Trends in the Elderly Medicare Population (PDF, 166 KB) Last Year of Life Expenditures (PDF, 202 KB)
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