Open AccessPatient Characteristics and Costs Associated With COVID-19–Related Medical Care Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries
Author(s) -
Yuping Tsai,
Tara M. Vogt,
Fangjun Zhou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.839
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1539-3704
pISSN - 0003-4819
DOI - 10.7326/m21-1102
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , emergency medicine , observational study , medical costs , retrospective cohort study , medical care , health care , family medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth
New cases of COVID-19 continue to occur daily in the United States, and the need for medical treatments continues to grow. Knowledge of the direct medical costs of COVID-19 treatments is limited.