Medicare Mortality Rates (1999-2019)

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) has created a publicly available source of data that provides researchers, payers, regulators, and innovators with metrics that quantify temporal and regional patterns of health care spending and utilization in the United States. Using CMS Medicare claims data (mostly for age >64 enrollees), Atlas researchers built cohorts (“denominators”) and numerous measures or events (“numerators”) which were then used to calculate rates either by geography or for patients assigned to specific hospitals. These rates, which are calculated consistently across time and place, provide researchers with opportunities to evaluate spatial and temporal variation/trends. </p>

<p>This entry contains Dartmouth Atlas mortality rate data for the 65+ Medicare population, including overall mortality rates, mortality rates for beneficiaries with health maintenance organization (HMO) coverage, and mortality rates for beneficiaries without HMO coverage. Rates are provided at the state, hospital referral region (HRR), and hospital service area (HSA) levels, and all rates have been adjusted for age, sex, and race. </p>

<p> Users downloading data should review the methods sections of Dartmouth Atlas reports for context as well as for information about any temporal changes in methods. All reports in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care series are available from the National Library of Medicine <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584737/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584737/</a><p>

<p> Note that for the general Dartmouth Atlas rate datasets, which span multiple decades, the author list includes all Dartmouth staff (programmers, analysts, supervisors, etc.) involved in generating all types of Atlas rates across all years. We do not attempt to assign individuals to specific datasets or years. <p>