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May 23, 2012 at 09:33 AM
Medicare does not pay for long-term care (LTC), but about 5% of Medicare enrollees were living in LTC facilities in 2007, up from 4.5% in 2006.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published those figures in Health, United States, 2011, a 583-page compendium of U.S. health data.
The report includes data on acute health care problems, oral health, mortality, disability and other health-related topics.
The current report, like earlier reports in the series, gives information about matters such as access to care, oral health, and claim reimbursement databases.
In the new report, in sections on Medicare enrollee LTC data, the CDC says 9% of the 45 million U.S. residents enrolled in Medicare in 2007 reporting using an LTC facility at some point during the previous 12 months, up from 8.9% in 2006.
