Table 5: Selected Measures of Service Utilization by Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries, by Race/Ethnicity and Self-reported Health Status, 2018

NOTE: *denotes statistically significant differences at the 95% confidence level from White beneficiaries with comparable health status. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race but are categorized as Hispanic for this analysis; other groups are non-Hispanic. ¹Sample includes all beneficiaries in traditional Medicare, including those who are enrolled for the entire year, those who become eligible during the year, and those who die during the year. Analysis excludes beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage. ²Among beneficiaries with at least one day of service utilization.. ED is emergency department visit. Rx is prescription drug. N/A: estimates with relative standard errors greater than 30% are not provided and often correspond to low sample size.