1993.01.06 :  Medicare Benefit Payments

Contact:  Anne Verano (202) 690-6145
January 6, 1993
                         
       Medicare payments for health care services in the fourth
quarter of fiscal year 1992 were nearly 12 percent greater than
the payments in the same quarter of FY 1991, according to data
released today by the Health Care Financing Administration.
       Acting HCFA Administrator William Toby Jr. said Medicare
benefit payments in the July-through-September quarter of FY 1992
amounted to $33.7 billion, up $3.6 billion from the $30.1 billion
spent in the same quarter of FY *This is an archive page. The links are no longer being updated. 
1991. 
       The Medicare program, which serves the elderly and
disabled, had 35.6 million enrollees in Sept. 1992, an increase
of 603,000 from September of the previous year. 

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EDITOR'S NOTE: HCFA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs,
which help pay the medical bills of more than 67 million
Americans.  HCFA's estimated FY 1993 expenditures are $230
billion, the 12th largest government budget of any kind in the
world.