Medicare Hospital Insurance in Massachusetts

Part A hospital insurance tagged to Massachusetts

CFDA 93.773 is titled MEDICARE HOSPITAL INSURANCE. That Catalog line is Medicare Part A hospital insurance as USAspending files it. Filtered to Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $8,061,840,174.67 on 126 awards. The national Medicare Hospital Insurance hub includes every other state. Massachusetts's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $8,061,840,174.67 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of discharges, beds, or hospitals in Boston, Worcester, or Springfield.

Medicare hospital insurance can post as many instruments rather than one statewide row; that still does not identify facilities or beneficiaries. Packet facts stop at $8,061,840,174.67, 126 awards, MA, and 93.773. Recipient names, hospital lists, and enrollee counts are unpublished.

Do not invent contractors, hospitals, or award recipients. No fiscal year appears in the packet. Do not treat $8,061,840,174.67 as a single trust-fund year. Correlation is not causation. This page offers no medical advice.

93.773 is not Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance in Massachusetts

Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (Part B, CFDA 93.774) and Medical Assistance Program (Medicaid, CFDA 93.778) sit on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $8,061,840,174.67 would invent a broader total than this 93.773 × MA cell contains. Facts available: Massachusetts, CFDA 93.773, $8,061,840,174.67, 126 awards. The program name on the packet is Medicare Hospital Insurance.

Dividing $8,061,840,174.67 by 126 yields about $63.98 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical inpatient stay cost and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. 126 is not a count of Massachusetts hospitals, discharges, or beneficiaries.

Questions

How much Medicare Hospital Insurance is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov shows $8,061,840,174.67 in CFDA 93.773 obligations coded to Massachusetts across 126 awards. The catalog is Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A as USAspending files it). The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep 93.773 and Massachusetts together when citing $8,061,840,174.67.

Is Medicare Hospital Insurance the same as Medicaid in Massachusetts?

No. This cell is CFDA 93.773 only. Medical Assistance Program (93.778) and Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (93.774) are other catalogs. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $8,061,840,174.67. 126 is a record count, not a hospital census.

Does 126 awards mean 126 Massachusetts hospitals?

126 is a USAspending award-record count, not a hospital, discharge, or beneficiary census. The implied mean is about $63.98 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $8,061,840,174.67 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $8,061,840,174.67, 126 awards, MA, and 93.773. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal hospital claims already paid?

No. $8,061,840,174.67 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no claim or enrollee count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 93.773 × MA pair. Packet facts stop at $8,061,840,174.67, 126 awards, MA, and 93.773. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.