Reproducibility of the medical cost estimation from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey: Comparing claims and survey.

Background: The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) limited-access data provides the unique opportunity to utilize administrative claims and adjusted survey data to investigate trends in utilization and medical expenditure across time. The adjusted survey data is a synthesized, matched version of the original survey data and claims. Researchers may choose adjusted survey data or original claims for cost evaluations according to their research purpose.

Economic burden of diabetes among medicare beneficiaries with cancer.

Objectives: Older adults are commonly affected by cancer and diabetes, and an investigation of the economic burden faced by these older adults remains a research gap. Therefore, the objective was to assess the economic burden of diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer by analyzing annual costs from administrative claims data.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, serial cross-sectional study using the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) from 2006 to 2012.