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Abstract #302563

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Activity Number: 342
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #302563
Title: Income Measurement in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Author(s): Jessica Banthin*+ and Thomas M. Selden and Didem Bernard
Companies: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Address: Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Rockville, MD, 20814,
Keywords: health policy ; income ; poverty status
Abstract:

Good measures of individual and family income are important for many types of health policy analyses. Accurate income data are critical for estimating who is eligible for public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP. Income also plays the crucial role of denominator when measuring the burden on families of out-of-pocket expenditures for health care. In addition, analyses of access and coverage are more policy relevant when the groups that lack adequate insurance can be characterized by income or poverty status. In this paper, we first compare MEPS and CPS poverty status distributions overall and by important subgroups to show that MEPS income benchmarks closely to estimates from the CPS. We then compare four measures of income that can be generated using MEPS data. We demonstrate the differences in the four measures of income by comparing poverty status distributions, characteristics of the uninsured, and out-of-pocket burdens.

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