TABLE 3—

Selected Characteristics of and Expenditures Related to Medicare Confirmed HIV Population: United States, 1997–2003

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Overall HIV population
Months of enrollment × 103	453.3	555.0	625.6	674.7	730.8	795.2	863.6
Beneficiary count	42 520	51 400	56 500	60 440	64 960	70 800	76 500
Hospitalizations per 1000 beneficiaries	801	759	725	684	692	669	631
Mortality rate per 1000 beneficiaries	90.3	87.9	83.5	78.8	69.0	65.5	58.8
Total payments, $, × 106	608.0	706.0	761.4	787.6	909.3	984.0	1 218
Annual per beneficiary expenditure, 1997 $a	14 299	13 835	13 535	12 646	12 501	11 718	12 725
Disabled HIV population < 65 y
Months of enrollment × 103	427.0	527.4	594.9	636.0	680.2	738.8	801.5
Beneficiary count	40 000	48 840	53 640	56 820	60 420	65 580	70 860
Total payments, $, × 106	569.9	657.1	718.0	736.5	841	891	1 125
Annual per beneficiary expenditure, 1997 $a	14 247	13 551	13 445	12 575	12 435	11 456	12 697
Whites	11 198	10 691	10 901	9 601	9 529	8 662	9 342
Blacks	18 811	18 002	17 797	17 436	16 904	15 785	17 690

Note. Beneficiary records for the HIV population contained 2 or more HIV-related physician or hospital nondiagnostic interventions in a given year.

^a The adjustment to 1997 dollars was based on the yearly change in average annual per beneficiary payments observed in the complete Medicare disabled population.