MCBS 2016 Chartbook is now available!

Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) 2016 Chartbook is now available.

The MCBS Chartbook is designed to provide the public with a collection of charts and tables presenting estimates from the MCBS.

The MCBS Chartbook is organized as follows:

• Section 1: Who is in the Medicare Population?: Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries.

• Section 2: How Healthy are Medicare Beneficiaries?: Self-reported health status and health behaviors of Medicare beneficiaries.

• Section 3: What is the Medicare Population’s Access to Care and How Satisfied Are They with Their Care?: Access to and satisfaction with health care services.

• Section 4: What Health Care Services Do Medicare Beneficiaries Receive?: Health care use by Medicare beneficiaries across nine service categories, including: inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, physician/supplier services, dental services, prescription drugs, Medicare hospice, Medicare home health, skilled nursing facility, and long-term nursing home care.

• Section 5: How Much Do Health Care Services for the Medicare Population Cost?:Health care expenditures and all sources of payment across service categories.

The MCBS Chartbook is updated annually to publicly disseminate current estimates for the Medicare population collected in the MCBS. New additions to the MCBS 2016 Chartbook are measures on Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and receipt of the shingles vaccine.

To view this publication, please visit the data tables section of the MCBS website athttps://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research/MCBS/Data-Tables.html.