Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Access to Care, Calendar Year 1993: [United States] (ICPSR 6637)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Care Financing Administration

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06637.v2

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Summary

This data collection is the third in a series of data releases from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) relating to beneficiary access to medical care. The MCBS is a continuous, multipurpose survey of a representative sample of the Medicare population, both aged and disabled. Sample persons are interviewed three times a year over several years to form a continuous profile of their health care experience. Interviews are conducted regardless of whether the sample person resides at home or in a long-term care facility, using the questionnaire version appropriate to the setting. The MCBS also collects a variety of information about demographic characteristics (date of birth, sex, race, education, military service, and marital status), health status and functioning, access to care, sources of and satisfaction with care, insurance coverage, financial resources, and family supports. The 1993 interview data were collected during September through December of 1993, the seventh round of data collection. The 1993 data are designed to stand alone for cross-sectional analysis, or they can be used for longitudinal analysis. Weights are provided for both cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis.

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Care Financing Administration. Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Access to Care, Calendar Year 1993:  [United States]  . [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06637.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

In preparing the data for this collection, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has removed all direct identifiers and characteristics that might lead to identification of data subjects. As an additional precaution, HCFA requires, under Section 1105(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C., Section 1306(a)) and the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C., Section 552a(1)(3)), that data collected by the HCFA not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. HCFA further requires that analysts not use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and that HCFA be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. ICPSR member institutions and other users ordering data from ICPSR are expected to adhere to these restrictions.

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Time Period(s)

1993

Date of Collection

1993-09 -- 1993-12

Data Collection Notes

  1. On March 13, 1997, the HCFA withdrew the billing records data (Parts 27-33) from distribution.

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Sample

Respondents were sampled from the Medicare enrollment file to be representative of the Medicare population as a whole and by age group: under 45, 45-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, and 85 and over. Because of interest in their special health care needs, the oldest old (85 and over) and the disabled (64 and under) were oversampled to permit detailed analysis of these subpopulations. The sample was drawn from 107 primary sampling units (PSUs). The 1993 Round 7 data include interviews for 10,936 persons in the longitudinal sample (Round 1 and 4 interviews completed), or initial interviews conducted in Round 4 (supplemental sample -- Round 4). An additional 1,927 interviews were completed for Round 7 supplemental sample persons. A total of 11,817 community interviews and 1,046 institutional interviews were completed for Round 7.

Universe

Medicare beneficiaries.

Data Source

personal interviews and HCFA's national claims history database (NCH)

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Original Release Date

1996-03-06

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration. MEDICARE CURRENT BENEFICIARY SURVEY, ACCESS TO CARE, CALENDAR YEAR 1993: [UNITED STATES]. 2nd ICPSR release. Baltimore MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration [producer], 1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06637.v2

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 27 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1997-04-22 Part 7 (Survey Health Status and Functioning Data) and Part 11 (Survey Health Insurance Data) have been resupplied by the principal investigator to correct several variables. In addition, the billing records data (Parts 27-33) were withdrawn from distribution by the principal investigator.

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