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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Bar chart showing 366 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 35 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	1	2
1999	1	1	2
2000	0	1	1
2001	0	2	2
2002	1	2	3
2003	4	2	6
2004	6	4	10
2005	2	3	5
2006	2	3	5
2007	2	9	11
2008	7	8	15
2009	3	5	8
2010	6	10	16
2011	3	1	4
2012	7	14	21
2013	5	6	11
2014	5	5	10
2015	7	15	22
2016	2	15	17
2017	7	13	20
2018	7	12	19
2019	6	20	26
2020	9	26	35
2021	4	27	31
2022	4	24	28
2023	9	18	27
2024	1	7	8
2025	1	0	1

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

Mahmoudzadeh R, Samuel M, Wheeler S, Salabati M, Leffler CT, Randolph JD. COVID-19 Pandemic and Rates of Common Ophthalmic Procedures Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2025 03 01; 143(3):207-213.

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Gutfinger D, Sultan I, Ailawadi G, Ramzy D, Kaneko T, Yu Y, Meka G, Prillinger JB, Bavaria JE. Real-world outcomes and management considerations following surgical aortic valve replacement with the Trifecta valve. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2025 08; 77:75-82.

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DeMik DE, Lizcano JD, Jimenez E, Mullen KJ, Lonner JH, Krueger CA. Does Resurfacing the Patella Increase the Risk of Extensor Mechanism Injury within the First 2 Years after Total Knee Arthroplasty? J Knee Surg. 2025 Feb; 38(3):110-114.

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Loftus AW, Hue JJ, Elshami M, Miller-Ocuin JL, Steinhagen E, Hoehn RS, Rothermel LD, Ammori JB, Hardacre JM, Ocuin LM. An Age-Stratified Analysis of Early Postoperative Mortality Among Medicare-Eligible Patients With Common Gastrointestinal and Hepato-pancreato-biliary Malignancies. Am Surg. 2024 Nov; 90(11):2940-2950.

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Parikh N, Woelber E, Bido J, Hobbs J, Perloff J, Krueger CA. Identification of Surgeon Outliers to Improve Cost Efficiency: A Novel Use of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Quality Payment Program. J Arthroplasty. 2024 10; 39(10):2427-2432.

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Karsh L, Du S, He J, Waters D, Muser E, Shore N. Differences in real-world outcomes by risk classification for localized prostate cancer patients after radiation therapy. Prostate. 2024 08; 84(11):1047-1055.

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Du JY, Shafi K, Blackburn CW, Chapman JR, Ahn NU, Marcus RE, Albert TJ. Elective Single-Level Primary Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion for Degenerative Spondylotic Cervical Myelopathy Is Associated With Decreased Resource Utilization Versus Posterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion. Clin Spine Surg. 2024 08 01; 37(7):E317-E323.

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DeMik DE, Gold PA, Frisch NB, Kerr JM, Courtney PM, Rana AJ. A Cautionary Tale: Malaligned Incentives in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Payment Model Reforms Threaten Promising Innovation and Access to Care. J Arthroplasty. 2024 05; 39(5):1125-1130.

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Adler JT, Kuk AE, Cron DC, Parast L, Husain SA. Insurance Transitions from Employer-Based Insurance to Medicare and Waitlisting for Kidney Transplantation: Placing Marietta v. DaVita in Context. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 04 01; 35(4):495-498.

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Berkowitz ST, Finn AP, Sridhar J. Re: Braun et?al.: Association of private equity firm acquisition of ophthalmology practices with Medicare spending and use of ophthalmology services (Ophthalmology. 2024;131:360-369). Ophthalmology. 2024 03; 131(3):e11.

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