Home Health & Hospice Week

If you’re wondering whether your patients’ vaccination status is typical, a new resource from Medicare may help.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a “new data brief on the vaccination against COVID-19 among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries from January of 2000 to August of 2021,” CMS says. “The data brief uses data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to examines uptake of the primary COVID-19 vaccination series during the vaccination campaign in 2021,” it notes.

For example: Among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older living in the community, those with one chronic condition were more likely to be vaccinated than those with four or more chronic conditions — 85 percent vs. 77 percent, the brief details.

The nine-page brief is at www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/research/mcbs/data-briefs/mcbs-data-brief-vaccination-against-covid-19-among-medicare-beneficiaries-living-community.