Number of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with inflammatory bowel disease 2018

In 2018, nearly 100 thousand Medicare beneficiaries aged 67 and above were diagnosed with Crohn's disease. In comparison, roughly 162 thousand were diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. These diseases are the principle types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This statistic shows the number of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in the United States with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in 2018.