

Short-Term Fixes to the Sustainable Growth Rate Process . 2.1.2 Decomposing Spending Growth
Some of the changes in spending displayed in Figure 1 are due to changes in price and changes in the number of Medicare beneficiaries over time. Year-to-year changes in total spending were decomposed into changes attributable to price, the number of traditional fee-for-service Part B program beneficiaries, and intensity – changes in ut