Health Care Financing Program Statistics - Preliminary National Monthly Medicaid Statistics: October - December 1978

摘要

The publication is a preliminary monthly report containing data on medical assistance payments and recipients of services under Title XIX of the Social Security Act (Title XIX). Medicaid is an assistance program designed to provide medical assistance to specified groups of needy individuals. Information is compiled and reported by each State and/or jurisdicational agency administering an approved Title XIX program on Federal Report Form SRS-NCSS-120: Monthly Statistical Report on Medical Care. Information presented include medical payments by form of payment, number of recipients in whose behalf medical vendor payments were made, and data related to screening services under the Early and Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment Program.