Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries of Medicare & Medicaid: Characteristics, Health Care Spending & Evolving Policies

This report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the characteristics and costs of dual-eligible beneficiaries, focusing on 2009, the most recent year for which comprehensive data were available when CBO began this analysis. The report also examines the different payment systems that Medicare and Medicaid use to fund care for dual-eligible beneficiaries and recent efforts at the federal and state levels to integrate those payment systems and to coordinate the care that such beneficiaries receive from the two programs.
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