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Table 2 Age and Gender (%) of Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries

From: Measuring access to effective care among elderly medicare enrollees in managed and fee-for-service care: a retrospective cohort study

  

Fee-for-Service Sample

Managed Care Sample

 

United States

 

Staff Model

Group Model

 

N = 32,800,745

N= 344,733

N= 8,920

N= 4,258

Female *

60

62

56

55

Age (years) †

    

65–69 ‡

30

23

42

44

70–74 §

26

29

28

24

75–79 **

20

23

18

16

80–84 ††

13

15

8

9

85+ ‡‡

11

10

4

7

  1. *p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons, except Staff/Group, p= 0.28 † Chi – square for all ages = 11,128; p = 0.001 ‡ p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons, except Staff/Group, p = 0.03 §p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons, except FFS/Staff, p = 0.04 **p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons, except Staff/Group, p = 0.005 †† p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons, except Staff/Group, = 0.05 ‡‡ p < 0.001 for all two-way comparisons