IHP 630 Healthcare Finance & Reimbursement

For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare and Medicaid data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

Health statistics are numbers that summarize information related to health. Researchers and experts from government, private, and non-profit agencies and organizations collect health statistics. They use the statistics to learn about public health and health care.

Medicare is health insurance for people 65 or older.

Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income people and is one of the largest payers for health care in the United States.

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