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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.521.346.506.564.663 N03.219.521.576.343.840 N03.706.615.696
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 Insurance, Health, for Aged and Disabled Insurance, Health, for Aged and Disabled

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Medicare".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financing, Organized [N03.219.521]
Financing, Government [N03.219.521.346]
Public Assistance [N03.219.521.346.506]
Medical Assistance [N03.219.521.346.506.564]
Medicare [N03.219.521.346.506.564.663]
Insurance [N03.219.521.576]
Insurance, Health [N03.219.521.576.343]
Medicare [N03.219.521.576.343.840]
Social Control, Formal [N03.706]
Legislation as Topic [N03.706.615]
Medicare [N03.706.615.696]

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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.

Bar chart showing 419 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 39 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	3	2	5
1997	0	1	1
1998	2	0	2
1999	1	5	6
2000	3	9	12
2001	1	2	3
2002	1	3	4
2003	3	6	9
2004	3	2	5
2005	1	7	8
2006	3	7	10
2007	2	8	10
2008	8	2	10
2009	4	8	12
2010	5	3	8
2011	3	6	9
2012	5	5	10
2013	4	5	9
2014	7	3	10
2015	11	9	20
2016	7	9	16
2017	10	14	24
2018	5	10	15
2019	12	18	30
2020	12	18	30
2021	15	24	39
2022	11	25	36
2023	9	18	27
2024	6	14	20
2025	4	5	9
2026	4	6	10

Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare" by people in Profiles.

Rosen AK, Beilstein-Wedel E, Shwartz M, Jridi A, Eppich KG, He T, Vanneman ME. Importance of Capturing Risk Adjustment Data for Veterans Using Multiple Healthcare Systems. Health Serv Res. 2026 Dec; 61(6).

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Kapoor A, Chen Z, Patel J, Ye Z, Lin H, Barnes G, Crawford S, Gurwitz JH. Stroke and Bleeding Risk in Long-Term Care Residents With Atrial Fibrillation Who Discontinue Anticoagulation. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Oct 01; 9(10):e2640964.

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Festa N, Alexovitz K, O'Leary J, Davis-Plourde K, Dosa DM, Cohen AB, Carmody J, Gill TM. A Dual-Event Analysis of Rural and Nonrural Differences in Nursing Home Disaster Resilience. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Nov; 27(11):106469.

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Russo P, Strom JB, Nathan R, Song Y, Shokoohi M, Passman R, Reynolds MR, Mittal S. Clinical and economic outcomes in diagnostic-naïve Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries managed with alert-based ambulatory cardiac monitors: The CAMELOT-ALERT study. Am Heart J. 2027 Jan; 303:107594.

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DeJong C, D'Aunno T, Jurkowski B, Wiggins Y, Lindenauer PK, Spatz ES, Werner RM, Lagu T. Medicare Accountable Care Organizations: Clinical Performance for Patients With Heart Failure. Am J Manag Care. 2026 Aug 01; 32(8):e286-e292.

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Chung J, Lepore M, Xue T, Broudy R, Park H, LeBlanc R, Chin DL. Trends and Factors in Nursing Home Closures. JAMA Health Forum. 2026 Jul 02; 7(7):e262492.

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Tjia J, Troiani FL, Wyndham A, Tanikella S, Rumbut J, Castaneda-Avila MA. Geographic Variation in Missing Race and Ethnicity Data in Minimum Data Set 3.0. Med Care. 2026 Aug 01; 64(8):473-482.

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Liang S, Lapane KL, Ott BR, Tjia J, Baek J, Yuan Y, Alcusky M. Antidepressant Use Among US Nursing Home Residents With Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 07; 74(7):1998-2010.

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Christensen EW, Drake AR, Rula EY, Yuan CX, Wald C, Johnson MH, Nicola GN. National Turnaround Time Trends for Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries, 2014-2023. J Am Coll Radiol. 2026 Jul; 23(7):1244-1252.

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Long K, Bocobo G, Goldsmith A. Reimbursement and Policy Considerations of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Rural Family Medicine. J Am Board Fam Med. 2026 Feb 27; 38(6):967-973.

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