 Medicare
"Medicare" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)
| Descriptor ID |
D006278
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.346.506.564.663 N03.219.521.576.343.840 N03.706.615.696
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| Concept/Terms |
Medicare- Medicare
- Health Insurance for Aged, Disabled, Title 18
- Health Insurance for Aged, Title 18
- Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled, Title 18
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medicare" by people in this website by year, and whether "Medicare" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2003 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2004 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2005 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2007 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2008 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2009 | 5 | 10 | 15 | | 2010 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2011 | 2 | 9 | 11 | | 2012 | 3 | 16 | 19 | | 2013 | 5 | 12 | 17 | | 2014 | 8 | 12 | 20 | | 2015 | 9 | 15 | 24 | | 2016 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 2017 | 11 | 19 | 30 | | 2018 | 11 | 21 | 32 | | 2019 | 15 | 23 | 38 | | 2020 | 17 | 29 | 46 | | 2021 | 15 | 50 | 65 | | 2022 | 5 | 42 | 47 | | 2023 | 17 | 39 | 56 | | 2024 | 21 | 15 | 36 | | 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare" by people in Profiles.
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Achola EM, Jazowski SA, Nicholas LH, Keohane LM, Wood WA, Friese CR, Dusetzina SB. Evaluating access to care for Medicare beneficiaries younger than 65 Years. Am J Manag Care. 2025 May; 31(5):222-229.
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Coogan PF, Delp L, Hicks JN, Hill-Jarrett TG, Ortiz K, James BD, Bailey Z, Barnes LL, Rosenberg L. Neighborhood disadvantage and the incidence of dementia in US Black women. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Apr; 21(4):e70125.
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Butala NM, Lalani C, Tale A, Song Y, Kolte D, Baron S, Strom J, Cohen DJ, Yeh RW. Use of Claims to Assess Outcomes and Treatment Effects in the Evolut Low Risk Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Jan; 18(1):e014592.
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Bradley CJ, Liang R, Lindrooth RC, Sabik LM, Perraillon MC. High-Cost Cancer Drug Use in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare. JAMA Health Forum. 2025 Jan 03; 6(1):e244868.
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Lopez R, Mohan S, Rodrigue JR, Arrigain S, Brosi D, Lavanchy R, Kaplan B, Pomfret EA, Schold JD. Association of organ procurement organization volume with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services performance evaluations. Am J Transplant. 2025 May; 25(5):1013-1020.
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Richman EH, Brinkman JC, Paul BR, Griffin N, Alfonso N. Trends in Medicare Utilization and Reimbursement for Intertrochanteric Femur Fractures: A 21-Year Review. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2024 Nov 21; 35(1):13.
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Azad TD, Wu RJ, Anderson KE, Darden M, Jain A. Osteoporosis testing and treatment remain low in both Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Osteoporos Int. 2025 Feb; 36(2):275-281.
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Moghtaderi A, Magid DJ, Yuan AY, Black B, Luo QE, Kini V. The Association of Hospital-Cardiologist Integration With Patient Outcomes, Care?Quality, and Utilization. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Feb 04; 85(4):352-361.
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Bruckman D, Lee I, Schold JD, Claytor BR, Silvestri NJ, Hehir MK, Li Y. Epidemiologic Study of Myasthenia Gravis in the Elderly US Population: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Medicare Claims Database, 2006-2019. Neurology. 2024 Nov 26; 103(10):e210005.
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Le P, Rich JJ, Bernstein EY, Glass J, Gasoyan H, Back SE, Bui TC, Rothberg MB. Disparities in Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder Among All of Us Participants. Am J Psychiatry. 2024 Nov 01; 181(11):973-987.
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