Table 5. Distribution of Medicare enrollees and amounts of liability for coinsurance and deductibles by decedents in their last year of life, and survivors in 1978, by liability interval.

Amount of liability	Survival status
	Decedents		Survivors
	Number of enrollees in thousands	Amount of liability in millions	Number of enrollees in thousands	Amount of liability in millions
Total	1,142	$507	18,320	$1,994
Less than $100	154	1	10,351	62
$100 to $199	102	8	3,731	273
$200 to $499	493	137	3,127	825
$500 to $999	285	77	941	564
$1,000 and over	107	183	170	269
	Percent distribution
Total	100	100	100	100
Less than $100	13	(1)	56	3
$100 to $199	9	2	20	14
$200 to $499	43	27	17	41
$500 to $999	25	35	5	28
$1,000 and over	9	36	1	14

¹Less than 1 percent.

NOTES: Unlike other financial data in this article, dollar figures for decedents in this table could not be adjusted for the 6-month difference in data for decedents and survivors. Thus, the concentration of decedents in the higher liability intervals as compared to survivors is slightly understated. Parts may not add to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration: Data from the Medicare Statistical System.