Table F. Percent distribution of Medicare benefit payments by type of service: Selected years 1967-901.
| Calendar year | Per capita Medicare benefit payments | Total Medicare benefit payments in billions | Type of personal health care expenditure | ||||||
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| Total | Hospital care | Physicians' services | Other professional services2 | Eyeglasses and appliances | Nursing home care | Other health services | |||
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| Historical3 | |||||||||
| 1967 | $ 22 | $ 4.5 | 100.0 | 69.0 | 24.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 0.2 |
| 1970 | 34 | 7.1 | 100.0 | 71.4 | 22.9 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 3.7 | 0.2 |
| 1972 | 40 | 8.6 | 100.0 | 73.6 | 22.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 |
| 1975 | 71 | 15.6 | 100.0 | 74.5 | 21.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 154 | 35.7 | 100.0 | 72.7 | 21.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 186 | 43.5 | 100.0 | 72.0 | 22.4 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 215 | 50.9 | 100.0 | 71.4 | 22.4 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
| Projected4 | |||||||||
| 1984 | 276 | 66.5 | 100.0 | 69.4 | 23.9 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 383 | 94.7 | 100.0 | 68.2 | 25.4 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| 1990 | 519 | 131.5 | 100.0 | 67.5 | 26.3 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
Service categories used in this table differ from those used in the annual reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. For example, hospital-based home health services appear as hospital care rather than as home health services, which are included in other professional services.
Hospice benefits are included with other professional services. The benefit provision was effective November 1, 1983, and expires October 1, 1986.
Historical data are from Gibson et al. (1983).
Projections are derived from Assumptions II-B (intermediate) from the Board of Trustees (1983). However, growth rates for hospital inpatient expenses were modified by the Medicare actuaries to reflect minor changes associated with the implementation of the Medicare PPS. Projections of Medicare outlays are updated periodically through the year to reflect changes in regulations and revised forecasts of the economy.
SOURCE: Office of Financial and Actuarial Analysis, Bureau of Data Management and Strategy, Health Care Financing Administration.