Table 2.

Weighted Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries at Visits, 2007–2016

Characteristics	Receiving Grade D preventive servicea (n=6888)b	Not receiving Grade D preventive service (n=88,233)b
Weighted visits (%)	188,567,988 (7.9)	2,203,570,920 (92.1)
Age (years, mean)	73.0	72.2
Female sex (%)	62.6	56.9
Race/ethnicity (%)
Non-Hispanic white	77.8	78.8
Non-Hispanic African American	8.5	8.9
Hispanic	10.6	8.2
Other	3.1	4.1
Payer type (%)
Medicare-only	56.4	54.8
Medicare + supplemental private	37.4	37.8
Dual-eligible	6.2	7.4

^aVisits are counted as receiving Grade D preventive services if they received any of the selected seven services during the study period. If multiple Grade D services were ordered at a single encounter, then the visit was counted once

^bUnweighted sample size