New Medicare Breakdown

On May 12, 2013 we updated usgovernmentspending.com to show details of the federal Medicare program.

Historical Table 3.2, published each year in the Historical Tables section of the Budget of the United States, is the primary source we use for showing federal outlays down to the "subfunction" level.  Table 3.2 includes about 80 line items.  But Medicare appears as a single line item, subfunction 571.

The details of Medicare can be found in the Outlays table of the the Public Budget Database section of the budget and usgovernmentspending.com shows Medicare details on its Numbers page.  There you can find outlays for the three major parts of Medicare, the Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) program, the Part B Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI) program, and the Part D Drug benefit when you drill down below the subfunction level.

usgovernmentspending.com has now surfaced the Part A, Part B and Part D outlays up to the subfunction level by creating our own unofficial subfunctions for the Medicare program as follows:

New sub- function	Description
572	HI (Part A) Benefits
573	HI (Part A) Administration
574	HI (Part A) Premiums and Collections
575	SMI (Part B) Benefits
576	SMI (Part B) Administration
577	SMI (Part B) Premiums and Collections
581	SMI Drug (Part D) Benefits
582	SMI Drug (Part D) Administration
583	SMI Drug(Part D) Premiums and Collections
584	Other

You can find the new detailed Medicare numbers on the Medicare Spending Details page here and the Medicare Spending by Year page here.  You can also look at the Entitlements History page here.

Reminder: The ten "subfunctions" 572 through 784 are not official US government subfunctions.