Medicare funding sources
• Payroll taxes: 37 percent
• General fund: 33 percent
• Contributions from beneficiaries: 22 percent
• Other: 8 percent
Medicare areas of expenditure
• Hospitals: 29 percent
• Medicare Advantage plans: 21 percent
• Physician services: 13 percent
• Prescription drug benefits: 10 percent
• Other Part B covered services: 10 percent
• Hospice and home health: 6 percent
• Outpatient hospital: 5 percent
• Skilled nursing facilities: 5 percent
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