Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly Final Report
September 2005 Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly Final Report The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must generate accurate predictions of future spending for planning purposes. To investigate a better method for understanding how medical breakthroughs and demographic trends will affect future Medicare costs, CMS contracted with RAND to develop models to project how changes in health status, disease, and disability among the next generation of elderly will affect future spending . . .
