Notes
1. Percent increase in year indicated over previous year.
2. Includes costs of Quality Improvement Organizations.
3. The ratio of the increase in HI costs to the increase in taxable payroll. This ratio is equivalent to the percent increase in the ratio of HI expenditures to taxable payroll (the cost rate).
4. Includes the declining share of costs drawn from HI for coverage of certain home health services transferred from HI to SMI Part B.

