Beneficiary Enrollment in Medicare

beneficiaries() allows the user access current data on enrolled Medicare beneficiaries.

Usage

beneficiaries(
  year = NULL,
  period = NULL,
  level = NULL,
  state = NULL,
  county = NULL,
  fips = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

year

< integer > Calendar year of Medicare enrollment; current years can be checked with:

• bene_years("year"): Years available for all 12 months

• bene_years("month"): Years available for individual months

period

< character > Time frame of Medicare enrollment; options are "Year", Month, or any individual month name

level

< character > Geographic level of data; options are "National", "State", or "County"

state

< character > Full state name or abbreviation of beneficiary residence

county

< character > County of beneficiary residence

fips

< character > FIPS code of beneficiary residence

tidy

< boolean > // default: TRUE Tidy output

...

Empty

Value

A tibble with the columns:

Field	Description
year	Enrollment calendar year
period	Enrollment time frame
level	Geographic level of data
state	Beneficiary residence state
state_name	Beneficiary residence state name
county	Beneficiary residence county
fips	Beneficiary residence FIPS code
bene_total	Total Medicare beneficiaries
bene_orig	Original Medicare beneficiaries
bene_ma_oth	Medicare Advantage beneficiaries
bene_total_aged	Aged beneficiaries
bene_aged_esrd	Aged beneficiaries with ESRD
bene_aged_no_esrd	Aged beneficiaries without ESRD
bene_total_dsb	Disabled beneficiaries
bene_dsb_esrd	Disabled with ESRD and ESRD-only beneficiaries
bene_dsb_no_esrd	Disabled beneficiaries without ESRD
bene_total_ab	Total Medicare Part A and B beneficiaries
bene_ab_orig	Original Medicare Part A and B beneficiaries
bene_ab_ma_oth	Medicare Advantage Part A and B beneficiaries
bene_total_rx	Total Medicare Part D beneficiaries
bene_rx_pdp	Medicare Prescription Drug Plan beneficiaries
bene_rx_mapd	Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan beneficiaries
bene_rx_lis_elig	Part D Low Income Subsidy Eligible (Full) Beneficiaries
bene_rx_lis_full	Part D Low Income Subsidy Full Beneficiaries
bene_rx_lis_part	Part D Low Income Subsidy Partial Beneficiaries
bene_rx_lis_no	Part D No Low Income Subsidy Beneficiaries

Medicare Monthly Enrollment

Current monthly information on the number of Medicare beneficiaries with hospital/medical coverage and prescription drug coverage, available for several geographic areas including national, state and county.

The hospital/medical coverage data can be broken down further by health care delivery (Original Medicare versus Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plans) and the prescription drug coverage data can be examined by those enrolled in stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans and those enrolled in Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plans.

The dataset includes enrollee counts on a rolling 12 month basis.

Links

• Medicare Monthly Enrollment

Update Frequency: Monthly

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
beneficiaries(year   = 2022,
              period = "Year",
              level  = "County",
              county = "Autauga")

beneficiaries(year   = 2022,
              period = "July",
              state  = "Georgia")

beneficiaries(level = "State", fips  = "10")
}