 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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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2003 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2004 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2005 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2007 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2008 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2009 | 5 | 12 | 17 | | 2010 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2011 | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 2012 | 4 | 16 | 20 | | 2013 | 5 | 13 | 18 | | 2014 | 9 | 16 | 25 | | 2015 | 10 | 20 | 30 | | 2016 | 5 | 11 | 16 | | 2017 | 11 | 21 | 32 | | 2018 | 11 | 21 | 32 | | 2019 | 15 | 29 | 44 | | 2020 | 18 | 33 | 51 | | 2021 | 16 | 52 | 68 | | 2022 | 5 | 40 | 45 | | 2023 | 14 | 42 | 56 | | 2024 | 20 | 17 | 37 | | 2025 | 12 | 9 | 21 | | 2026 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare" by people in Profiles.
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Yang M, Abdulsalam R, Shi Y, Fan W, Manson SM, Corrada MM, O'Connell J, Jiang L. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and related health conditions among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 04; 22(4):e71385.
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Roetker NS, Victores A, Kou C, Bash LD, Ramey DR, Ke X, Bonaca MP, Wetmore JB. Health care resource utilization and costs of major bleeding in patients with and without dialysis-dependent end-stage kidney disease: a retrospective study. Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2026 Mar; 10(3):103437.
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Richman EH, Rakowski DR, Hop JC, Lauder A, Catalano LW. Utilization and physician reimbursement patterns for radial head fractures in elderly patients. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2026 Mar 06; 36(1).
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Deardorff WJ, Tominaga G, Harrison JD, Weerahandi H, Miller MJ, Yukawa M, Lam K. Can I Stay, or Must I Go Now? A Cohort Study of Discharge Appeals in a Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Apr; 27(4):106108.
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Deardorff WJ, Gan S, Jing B, Lam K, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ. An Updated Mortality and Community Discharge Prognostic Model for Older Adults Admitted to Skilled Nursing Facilities for Post-Acute Care. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Apr; 27(4):106103.
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Hop JC, Richman EH, Marchetti DC, Royster BW, Gorman MA, Alfonso NA. Surgical fixation of clavicle fractures in the elderly: utilization and compensation over two decades. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2026 Jan 22; 36(1):85.
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Davoudi A, Dougherty RJ, Wanigatunga AA, Agrawal Y, Reed NS, Ehrlich JR, Gross AL, Schrack JA. Sensorimotor Impairment and Incident Dementia in the US Medicare Beneficiaries. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Feb; 74(2):458-469.
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Fedewa SA, Buckner TW, Cafuir L, Sidonio RF, Lim M, Kempton CL. Approaches to Identify People With Haemophilia With Medicare Claims Data. Haemophilia. 2026 Mar-Apr; 32(2):410-417.
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Greene M, Le QA, Ozbay AB, Karlitz JJ, Fendrick AM. Completing the colorectal cancer screening process: impact of eliminating cost-sharing for follow-up colonoscopy. Curr Med Res Opin. 2025 Sep; 41(9):1697-1703.
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Li Y, Bruckman D, Schold JD, Claytor B, Silvestri N, Hehir MK, Lee I. Survival Outcomes of Medicare-Covered Elderly US Population With Myasthenia Gravis. Muscle Nerve. 2026 Jan; 73(1):41-49.
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